My old computer recently stopped working entirely, where first my motherboard said the bios was corrupted and then it did something with dual bios and attempted to load windows but I just got in a blue screen and "attempting repairs" loop. I did not have time to back up any of my important data (basically just my dark souls saves that are not on the steam cloud) because I was not anticipating this failure.
I have since purchased a new computer except for my old SSD and graphics card. Tomorrow I will plug in the power supply and I do not know what do do about my SSD and files.
I could attempt to boot from my old SSD as is and hope there are no problems with drivers. If this worked out, it would be best for me. However I read that with new chipsets and other drivers they tend to mess up with the new hardware. My old motherboard and fx8320 proccessor are over 5 years old.
Alternatively, I could do a clean install of windows, which would be the simplest, however I would lose my pictures and save files. I do not have any methods to access the files on my ssd because all I have at my house are laptops with no SATA ports.
Is there some method I could either boot right from my SSD as normal or get the files that I need off of it in order to clean install windows? Any help would be much appreciated.
I have since purchased a new computer except for my old SSD and graphics card. Tomorrow I will plug in the power supply and I do not know what do do about my SSD and files.
I could attempt to boot from my old SSD as is and hope there are no problems with drivers. If this worked out, it would be best for me. However I read that with new chipsets and other drivers they tend to mess up with the new hardware. My old motherboard and fx8320 proccessor are over 5 years old.
Alternatively, I could do a clean install of windows, which would be the simplest, however I would lose my pictures and save files. I do not have any methods to access the files on my ssd because all I have at my house are laptops with no SATA ports.
Is there some method I could either boot right from my SSD as normal or get the files that I need off of it in order to clean install windows? Any help would be much appreciated.