Old hard disk, new motherboard

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andrijahn

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Hey, so my old motherboard damaged during the flight so i had to upgrade to a new one and with that i had to change my CPU and RAM and now i am wondering can i connect it to my old Hard disk and run it or do i have to format the disk meaning i will lose everything.
 
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Try using the disk as is and see if it boots. If it does great, get everything backed up somewhere else (cloud or external hard drive). After that you might need to update some drivers to get everything working properly.
If it doesn't come back here and let us know and we can help further.
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Try using the disk as is and see if it boots. If it does great, get everything backed up somewhere else (cloud or external hard drive). After that you might need to update some drivers to get everything working properly.
If it doesn't come back here and let us know and we can help further.
 
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you can connect it but unless the motherboard is the same make, model, and revision as the first it will not boot properly if at all.
you can add it as a second hard drive on a working system and copy files. you can boot to a USB thumb drive with linux or other OS and access the data the drive.
if its your only drive, you can re-install windows (without formatting) and the installer should allow you to save the files from the previous install
 
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I dont know when i am getting the CPU so when i try it i will come back. Can you just tell me if it doesnt boot, what are the ways to transfer files from the hard disk and is it complicated ?
 
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If it fails to boot up, and this is a good possibility, then you'd need a workable OS on a different drive, and transfer your personal docs over.
You wouldn't be able to transfer any applications, only individual files.
 
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