Backing Up Files: Burning Dvd?

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:38 am

I might upgrade my PC , new motherboard/chip/hard drive

and I was wondering, this may be a n00b question. but I have a 80GB WD SE hard-drive, with 2 Partitions, 40GB on each.

If I were to buy a new hard-drive/motherboard/chip, Can it still reconize my files on my 80GB hd? Should I back up everything on DVD-Rs?

any advice would be geat,

oh yeah, Im planning to run my old HD/NEW HD on this pc if I do build it

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:25 am

sure, run the 80gig as a slave.

no issue at all.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:56 am

zooner wrote:sure, run the 80gig as a slave.

no issue at all.

sweet, would the 2 Partitions show up? or would it be a total of 80gb?

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:50 am

The old drives partitions will remain intact.

To avoid any confusion, or possible problems, leave the old drive off the system while you install the OS. Plug the old drive in once windows is installed. (With the PC turned off, and power cord disconnected)

Make sure the boot order in the BIOS is set to boot the new drive, and not the old one.

You're good to go.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:33 pm

Norm wrote:The old drives partitions will remain intact.

To avoid any confusion, or possible problems, leave the old drive off the system while you install the OS. Plug the old drive in once windows is installed. (With the PC turned off, and power cord disconnected)

Make sure the boot order in the BIOS is set to boot the new drive, and not the old one.

You're good to go.

just what I needed, thanks Norm!

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:38 pm

Ok I found out what Im doing

I bought a new Motherboard/Athlon 64 Chip and some new ram.

I still have my old 80GB hard-drive, can I add it on the new motherboard and it will recongize my old windows/stuff on there? Do I need to reformatt windows?

iaus10 · Post by **iaus10** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:45 pm

Trying to use the old OS on a new mobo usually makes Windoze unhappy. Probably get some "stop" errors when it fails to recognize the new hardware. Some people have done it by doing a sysprep to the OS before installing all the new hardware... but I haven't had much luck with that.

It's a good time to do a fresh install.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:51 am

iaus10 wrote:Trying to use the old OS on a new mobo usually makes Windoze unhappy. Probably get some "stop" errors when it fails to recognize the new hardware. Some people have done it by doing a sysprep to the OS before installing all the new hardware... but I haven't had much luck with that.

It's a good time to do a fresh install.

ah Ok, so my hard-drive, I have C AND a D drive,

C has windows
D has misc files and backup files

Can i reformatt C, reload windows xp and than when I first boot up can I see everything on D that was there befor my format/

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:58 am

It should be able to. I have C: D: E: F: drives and I format C where all my programs/OS is and once it's booted up, I still see all my drives/partitions.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:07 am

Whenever I get a pre-exisiting system and change out motherboards it usually ends up you need to do a system repair by re-installing windows. You shouldn't have to do a complete wipe-out and reinstall unless you were unhappy with how the system was acting before. You will just have to re-update any service packs or security patches that you have done.

If you decide to reinstall windows from scratch and you have 2 drives (1 new clean drive and 1 which was already formatted by windows and you want to use the clean drive to boot with) or ANY USB based flash drives make sure you disconnect the Old drive and any usb drives you may have BEFORE you go to insall windows or else it will make F: (Or another drive letter) drive as being your boot drive instead of C:
There is no way of reversing this once its set as the Boot drive other then wiping out and starting all over again.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:30 pm

thepieman wrote:Whenever I get a pre-exisiting system and change out motherboards it usually ends up you need to do a system repair by re-installing windows. You shouldn't have to do a complete wipe-out and reinstall unless you were unhappy with how the system was acting before. You will just have to re-update any service packs or security patches that you have done.

If you decide to reinstall windows from scratch and you have 2 drives (1 new clean drive and 1 which was already formatted by windows and you want to use the clean drive to boot with) or ANY USB based flash drives make sure you disconnect the Old drive and any usb drives you may have BEFORE you go to insall windows or else it will make F: (Or another drive letter) drive as being your boot drive instead of C:
There is no way of reversing this once its set as the Boot drive other then wiping out and starting all over again.

ah sounds good, ill try repairing.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:15 pm

tHE_0ne wrote:ah sounds good, ill try repairing.

Don't forget to install new chipset drivers and uninstall older ones for MB and Video first

Pie