hey guys,
done a solid few hours of my own research and havent managed to come to a solution for my particular issue.
i am buying a new motherboard (GA-Z77X-UD3H) along with an intel i5.
the current system is an older model gigabyte AMD mobo w/ a phenom X2 in it... the OS is on a SSD and i have 2 other HDD's to back stuff up on.
my aim is to be able to essentially copy my current windows 8 install and slot it back in with the new hardware, i don't like the idea of re-installing programs and changing settings etc.
the current windows 8 install is the 40$ upgrade from windows 7 that was available a while back.
so mainly, should i just try to swap in the new hardware and hope to god it will boot? / is uninstalling drivers first necessary?
or would something like taking the SSD image, then doing a clean install of windows 7 -> upgrade it, then copy certain things back over?
thanks for any help, everyone out there seems to have a different opinion or there situation isnt quite the same as mine.
done a solid few hours of my own research and havent managed to come to a solution for my particular issue.
i am buying a new motherboard (GA-Z77X-UD3H) along with an intel i5.
the current system is an older model gigabyte AMD mobo w/ a phenom X2 in it... the OS is on a SSD and i have 2 other HDD's to back stuff up on.
my aim is to be able to essentially copy my current windows 8 install and slot it back in with the new hardware, i don't like the idea of re-installing programs and changing settings etc.
the current windows 8 install is the 40$ upgrade from windows 7 that was available a while back.
so mainly, should i just try to swap in the new hardware and hope to god it will boot? / is uninstalling drivers first necessary?
or would something like taking the SSD image, then doing a clean install of windows 7 -> upgrade it, then copy certain things back over?
thanks for any help, everyone out there seems to have a different opinion or there situation isnt quite the same as mine.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop