Help With Upgrade

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Hello,

I recently purchased a new processor (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 2.66GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775) and a new MB Asus P5E. I have built alot of puters but I have not done an upgrade like this before. I am going to use all the hardware shown in my sig. My question is. What would be the steps that I need to take so that I do not lose all my data or have to install OS all over again? Everything will be the same except for MB & CPU...Thank You in advance to all that can help..
 
I'm pretty sure that you have to reinstall the O/S with a new motherboard and CPU. Back up the data onto a separate hard drive / external drive / DVDs.
 
You could boot into safe mode, uninstall the old mobo drivers, then reboot and load the new drivers. If that doesn't work, you could do a repair installation.

To safeguard your data, back it all up. Neither of the two procedures I listed above would kill your data, but you never know.
 
enginurd said:
You could boot into safe mode, uninstall the old mobo drivers, then reboot and load the new drivers. If that doesn't work, you could do a repair installation.

To safeguard your data, back it all up. Neither of the two procedures I listed above would kill your data, but you never know.
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Thank you for your response enginurd. I would imagine I would do this before uninstalling mb & CPU. Wipe all old drivers in safemode, reboot, install all new mb drivers, back up all data just incase. Then shutdown install new mb/CPU restart puter and all should be well, unless os has to be validated.
 
The uninstall would be done with your old hardware. The reinstallation of new drivers will be done with your new hardware. If that doesnt work, then the repair installation basically does the same thing with your new hardware.
 
Hello enginurd,
I know this post is many days old, but, I already installed the new mb & cpu and when I reboot I am getting A disk read error occured Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.. The HDD's are/or were configured in raid 0 with the old mb & cpu (See SIG below). . I had to update Bios version so that it could detect the CPU. What do I do from here?....Thanks again for your help And knowledge..
 
They were using the onboard RAID controllers? If so, unfortunately, you won't be able to just simply transfer the array to a new controller on the new mobo. You'll have to backup your data to another drive, re-create the array on the new controller, then image the data back over.
 
I am sorry.. I do not understand what you mean. I did a back up of C drive and saved it to my D drive before I did the uninstall of the old mb & cpu. What is it that I have to do?
 
HK-Viper1- said:
I am sorry.. I do not understand what you mean. I did a back up of C drive and saved it to my D drive before I did the uninstall of the old mb & cpu. What is it that I have to do?
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OK what software did you use to make that backup? Norton Ghost? Acronis TrueImage?
 
enginurd said:
They were using the onboard RAID controllers? If so, unfortunately, you won't be able to just simply transfer the array to a new controller on the new mobo. You'll have to backup your data to another drive, re-create the array on the new controller, then image the data back over.
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I had backed my C drive to the D drive using windows backup before I installed the mb & cpu. I made a floppy disk of the Raid drivers for the new mobo using my other pc. How do I fix this problem?:confused:
 
A backup won't work, it has to be a clone or image. Install Windows on the old C: drive, then restore the backed up data from the D: drive.
 
The issue is not with the backed-up data but with how your C: drive array was configured in your old motherboard. If your new motherboard uses a different chipset, you may need to reconfigure the RAID array. Doing this will of course wipe out all data on the hard disk. First, check to see if your board's RAID system is enabled in your BIOS. If not, refer to your board's documentation to enable it. If enabled, you should see a RAID BIOS post screen after your motherboard's post screen. This screen will display status information on your RAID arrays. If the RAID controller in your new board can pick up your original RAID configuration, you should be good to go. Otherwise, you will have to enter the RAID BIOS (accessible from the RAID post screen) to recreate the array. Once you've created the RAID array, you should have a working C drive ready to receive a fresh Windows install. Hope this helps.
 
Markyip1 said:
The issue is not with the backed-up data but with how your C: drive array was configured in your old motherboard. If your new motherboard uses a different chipset, you may need to reconfigure the RAID array. Doing this will of course wipe out all data on the hard disk. First, check to see if your board's RAID system is enabled in your BIOS. If not, refer to your board's documentation to enable it. If enabled, you should see a RAID BIOS post screen after your motherboard's post screen. This screen will display status information on your RAID arrays. If the RAID controller in your new board can pick up your original RAID configuration, you should be good to go. Otherwise, you will have to enter the RAID BIOS (accessible from the RAID post screen) to recreate the array. Once you've created the RAID array, you should have a working C drive ready to receive a fresh Windows install. Hope this helps.
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I went ahead and "WIPED" everything out and doing a freah install. For future refrences. How are, or, what are the steps "Exactly" that I should take in order to not have to wipe all and do a fresh install? Even though a fresh install always gives the better result in the end due to corrupted files. Keeping in mind that I have 4 hdd's configured in a raid0 (2 74gb in raid0 & 2 150gb in raid0). Now, I upgraded from a Asus Striker Extreme (680i chipset) to a Asus P5E (X38 chipset) and a E6600 2 core proc to a Q9850 quad core proc. All other hardware stays the same as in my SIG. If it were yours...How would you go about doing this....

Markyip1, enginurd, Danny Bui,

Thank you all again for your support and knowledge
 
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