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thank heaps, ill give it a go tomorrow. that's the answer i was looking for, but any chance you can explain why this was happening? that's cool if you can't really, just always interested in knowing why things do what they do. so pretty much, doing the recovery will hopefully restore and fix...

C: was the original window8 install that i had before i put in a new motherboard. it was an upgrade from windows7, i did not re-install anything on here recently. disk 1 has nothing but movies, when i was stuffing around in cmd is probably tried to restore the bootmgr on it accidently. disk...

better size; imgur: the simple image sharer also, to clarify, the 1TB (disk 3) drive is the one i installed windows8 on just so i could boot,

hey guys, following on from my other thread, http://www.eightforums.com/installation-setup/21724-re-install-windows-8-w-new-motherboard-cpu.html#post204582 i ended up managed to be able to boot into windows after i swapped out my motherboard and CPU to the new ones and everything seems to be...

Nah thanks, helping me get a better understanding on things. ATM I think my best bet is to use acronis and hope it will install on uEFI or w/e. if there's any tips alto have on this method they would be greatly appreciated. As far as I can see its just make the bootable media disc, pre...

thanks for the replies, but the thing is i DON'T want to be doing a clean install - unless there is a method of importing all my old programs and settings that i had with the old motherboard that i havent realised yet. minor drivers and random files are not an issue, they aren't going to...

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...