- Apr 21, 2024
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My father has a PC that he built back in 2004. At that time it was quite the rig, but now it's obviously like watching a turtle walk whenever it tries doing something. Normally in this situation, a fresh install on the new PC of windows 10 or 11 would do most people fine, but that won't work with my father. The main 3 reasons that my father does not want to just do a fresh install are; 1. He has a bunch of programs that are no longer supported or willing to run on any OS past Windows 7. 2. He absolutely despises from windows 8 and up due to their layout and the way you navigate the different menus/ find files, properties, etc. 3. The man has a current 80k win streak on Freecell. He does not want to lose it, and windows 8 and up does not come with Freecell pre-installed and according to him the one you do install is awful.
For some context. My father's 2004 rig is running a GA-X48T-DQ6(Rev 1.1.) for a motherboard, with all addon hardware working to support that board up to it's very last usable moment. It does possess an 870 EVO SSD, with some additional storage in HDD, but the SSD is the main boot drive. I am attempting to move said SSD over to a PC running an Aorus Z270X Gaming Motherboard, 32GB of MOBO compatible RAM, and (possibly in the future) figure out a way to move the data onto or add 2 NvMe M.2 drives. After installing the SSD into the Z270X PC, the computer will POST, it will see the drive and it will ATTEMPT to boot windows. It gets about maybe, 5 seconds into the windows boot cycle, before it freezes, BSOD's and then begins the entire loop again. I cannot get it to run in Safe Mode, Startup Repair just refuses to work entirely, and because the Windows version was originally installed as Windows XP which then was updated to Windows 7, i can't even run SYSPrep(even though i hear it's a menace to data)... I have been fighting with this computer for about a week now between this and another issue that Tom's Hardware managed to answer/resolve and i'm about ready to tear my hair out. Any help would be absolutely wonderful and immensely appreciated.
For some context. My father's 2004 rig is running a GA-X48T-DQ6(Rev 1.1.) for a motherboard, with all addon hardware working to support that board up to it's very last usable moment. It does possess an 870 EVO SSD, with some additional storage in HDD, but the SSD is the main boot drive. I am attempting to move said SSD over to a PC running an Aorus Z270X Gaming Motherboard, 32GB of MOBO compatible RAM, and (possibly in the future) figure out a way to move the data onto or add 2 NvMe M.2 drives. After installing the SSD into the Z270X PC, the computer will POST, it will see the drive and it will ATTEMPT to boot windows. It gets about maybe, 5 seconds into the windows boot cycle, before it freezes, BSOD's and then begins the entire loop again. I cannot get it to run in Safe Mode, Startup Repair just refuses to work entirely, and because the Windows version was originally installed as Windows XP which then was updated to Windows 7, i can't even run SYSPrep(even though i hear it's a menace to data)... I have been fighting with this computer for about a week now between this and another issue that Tom's Hardware managed to answer/resolve and i'm about ready to tear my hair out. Any help would be absolutely wonderful and immensely appreciated.
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