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Old HDD New Mobo

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Lycidas

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Hello all,

I recently built a new computer using DannyBUI's awesome advice. Anyway, I have an old HDD from my old computer lying around that I'd like to use with a fresh new Mobo/CPU combination.
Since my old Mobo/CPU drivers are installed on it, I'll need to delete those and install generic drivers so the HDD can put in the new Mobo/CPU combination drivers.

Link to new/old build: here
New Mobo: MSI Z77A-G43
Remember, I can access all drivers on this HDD... but I need to know where they're at and what to replace them with.

Things I've tried: Hiren's Boot CD 15.0
Windows Help Suggestions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2674065#method22
Manually installing new drivers: I suck at this for now

Any help?
 
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If you are running Windows 7, you don't need to do anything. Just boot from the drive and let W7 do the rest. I've ran the same W7 on completely different systems without issues. From a q8200 system to one of the 1090t systems in my sig. Same W7 install, same HDD. Didn't alter anything on the drive.
 
Skillz said:
If you are running Windows 7, you don't need to do anything. Just boot from the drive and let W7 do the rest. I've ran the same W7 on completely different systems without issues. From a q8200 system to one of the 1090t systems in my sig. Same W7 install, same HDD. Didn't alter anything on the drive.
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That's what I thought as well, but apparently that doesn't work for me. My HDD is installed into my mobo correctly but windows constantly resets when trying to boot. Can't even boot into safe mode. I can boot up linux off of a flash drive np.
 
Then for a fresh install. I would venture to guess you have something else going on.
 
Skillz said:
Then for a fresh install. I would venture to guess you have something else going on.
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yep, that's what i was thinking. The easiest solution i can think of right now is to buy a second HDD (or some DVDs). Then back up my existing HDD and fresh install.

I may just have some buggy hardware, but then why would my linux boot up off my Flash drive and work fine?
 
Could be a faulty Hdd, Sata controller, Sata cable, etc... can you boot off the flash drive with the Hdd installed? If windows isn't loading (not showing the windows startup screen) then windows isn't the problem.
 
Did you switch from IDE emulation on the old mobo to AHCI or RAID on the new?

I may just have some buggy hardware, but then why would my linux boot up off my Flash drive and work fine?
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linux is more forgiving than windows when it comes to bad hardware. Although if it is the IDE to AHCI problem linux will not care. Linux will have drivers for both and will automatically detect and use the correct driver or downgrade to a generic driver if possible.
 
With the new motherboard, make sure that the SATA setting in UEFi is the same as your old motherboard BIOS. So if the SATA setting in your old motherboard was IDE, make sure it is the same for the new mobo.
 
Okay. Will try that!

EDIT: Thanks Danny & everyone. The default setting was AHCI on my new mobo which i wasn't anticipating. all is good now .
 
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Lycidas said:
Okay. Will try that!

EDIT: Thanks Danny & everyone. The default setting was AHCI on my new mobo which i wasn't anticipating. all is good now .
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Good to see the issue is solved. Though drescherjm deserves the majority of the credit since I just simply restated what he said in a different way.
 
Okay, I'd like to revive this post. I have an SSD with my OS on it, but I want to use an HDD and my SSD.
Since I've already installed my OS on the SSD, am I screwed here and need to do a full re-install? Also remember that I'm defaulted to IDE Emulation. Would I need to switch to AHCI or a RAID0 configuration?

I'm not sure RAID0 is the way to go, since I want 100% of my OS installed on my SSD.
 
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Danny Bui said:
You don't need RAID. You may need AHCI if you have a large sized drive. MS has a nice method of switching Windows 7 from IDE to AHCI without having to re-install the OS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
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Thanks Danny! I double checked in the registry that the windows fix worked. (just google msahci)

After enabling AHCI, I had to do the following:
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management
:: Format drive to NTFS :: Assign it a name :: Call it a day

Thanks again for all your help!
 
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