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Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one??
    #26392306 - 12/20/19 11:21 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Basically I'm building a new rig, can I just take my ssd and hdd from old PC and stick em into new?

Will the new mobo recognise it straight away or I need to tweak bios ??


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy] * 1
    #26392315 - 12/20/19 11:26 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah you can just stick em in, make sure they are compatable with the new mobo/case etc.

Might need to change the master boot drive in the bios to whatever r one has your OS installed on


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Kmacmo]
    #26392326 - 12/20/19 11:36 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Thanx


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy]
    #26393535 - 12/21/19 06:06 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

It should work as long as you stay with the same cpu make, i.e. intel to intel or amd to amd.

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: mycomyst]
    #26393539 - 12/21/19 06:12 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Ok cool, that's the plan

I7 1st gen to i7 9th gen


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy]
    #26393795 - 12/21/19 10:05 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

With that upgrade you will get the latest chipset too, sweet!

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: mycomyst]
    #26393811 - 12/21/19 10:26 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

I can see that over the last 10 years

Mobos and memory are cheaper
CPUs are the same
Graphics cards are more expensive

What gives ...


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy]
    #26394955 - 12/22/19 03:41 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

If the shit hits the fan, I guess I can use external hdd???

My only worry windows might go nuts with different programs storing data in windows registry


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy] * 1
    #26395061 - 12/22/19 07:10 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Always back up your data first!

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy]
    #26422222 - 01/08/20 12:10 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

If u have any IDE HDDs, youre gonna have to get a coverter cable. But Im guessing they are all modern using SATA cables. If they all use SATA, then just slide them into a bay on your new PC and screw them down with hardware, then connect power and the SATA cable to the Hard drive/SSD and connect the Sata cable to the Motherboard. Its just that easy :thumbup:

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
    #26424941 - 01/09/20 03:33 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Personally speaking I no longer use external hard drives attached to my laptop for my data. I've got an RPi 4 4GB model that I have an external HDD attached to, and I will use sshfs to mount it locally on my laptop, or use scp to transfer the files over. This lets me have a cheap NAS in my house, and if I ever need to travel or go somewhere I can power down my RPi and take the external HDD that's attached to it with me.

You could do something like this and avoid having to constantly transfer files between laptops via usb or whatever. The downside to this is that you will need to backup the data somehow.

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: deadwk] * 2
    #26424952 - 01/09/20 03:42 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

buy a USB 3.0 enclosure for your old drive and use it as a portable drive. Back up all your important stuff and keep it off site of in a fireproof safe jic

A copy on site is only a strategy for hardware failure, disaster recovery requires off site storage.

Edited by Sugabearcrisp (01/09/20 03:44 PM)

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Sugabearcrisp] * 1
    #26426642 - 01/10/20 02:13 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Well i did it!!!

SSD and HDD on a new computer!! :awesome:

Only took me a more than a hour to fix BIOS with legacy settings and shit


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy] * 1
    #26426662 - 01/10/20 02:25 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

:nodofunderstanding:

That's always been the annoying part about moving hard drives to new computers is the bios issues.

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: deadwk]
    #26426676 - 01/10/20 02:33 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

what kills me is a lot of the newer games no longer support sli / crossfire multi gpu set ups. At the time I built my rig that was all the rage. Now i'm stuck running COD off one card on the lowest settings :sad:

Good luck with your build. Be sure to post pics, I'm sure lots of us get off on new rig builds.

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: D3_Myc]
    #26426702 - 01/10/20 02:53 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

My 3Dmark score doubled with this set up

Was 22000 now 44000

And that’s not true representation l my windows installation is messy and slows down the pc


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: Gypsy Boy]
    #26426992 - 01/10/20 05:56 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

You considering a fresh install now mate?


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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: D3_Myc]
    #26427003 - 01/10/20 06:03 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

For real? Thats dumb as fuck! Bring back mutli-GPU support!

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
    #26427281 - 01/10/20 09:08 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Yea it's pretty disappointing to be honest. I think it stems from the fact that GPU's nowadays are so unbelievably fucking powerful that you don't need SLI/crossfire. GPU's have been getting so unbelievably powerful the last couple of years.

One thing Nvidia has which I think is really cool is called NVLink.

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Re: Can I migrate my hard drive from old PC to a new one?? [Re: deadwk]
    #26427448 - 01/11/20 12:59 AM (4 years, 4 months ago)

Fresh install... I dont have a retail windows 10 stick

Plus I dont really want to reinstall all of my power ups: forza, visual studio, cubase etc...


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