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Omar_38

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I'm currently trying to upgrade my components to my pc. My motherboard is so old and outdated I don't even know what it is. My cpu is so old it's the first gen i7 920. Much needed upgrade but my problem is I want to upgrade those components and still boot from the operating system I have now. I am a music producer and have a lot of software And files written and saved into the registry. Is there a way to upgrade new motherboard and cpu and boot into from a hard drive?
 
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it hard to do but sometimes you can do it. the issue is drivers that are installed now and the newer hardware. on booting up on new hardware the old drivers are going to crash on newer hardware. a workaround is removing all of the old drivers and praying the old os will boot where you can install the newer drivers. windows 7 and newer 100 chipset has issues on installing due to the old os missing drivers. what i would do as it safer for your data and easer on you. is build the new pc with newer ssd and new windows 10 os. don't touch the old pc. leave it as is and connect it to the network and pay someone to help you move the data off the old pc over the network. with your software see if it run under windows 10 or if there free upgrade for it for windows 10. you have to reload them again. when your done reinstalling all your programs by a good backup software and make a full image of your hard drive. if the new hard drive fails you can recover all your data quickly.
 
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I heard that would be an issue. I saw some vids on YouTube where a guy deletes drivers from an old mobo and then reinstall drivers when it boots up on the new board. What exactly would happen if I was to take the risk? Is it just system crash or instability in the operating system? It would be a big hassle to backup the data I have saved for over 8 years and tbs of files in total. Files can be backed up but things like project files that was saved on that version of Windows won't open correctly on a new operating system. That's why I wish there was a way to just boot from Windows from the drive I have now.
 
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I managed this with Windows 8, an i7-920 (X58), to i7-4770k (Z87), both ASUS boards, but not really similar hardware, aside from all being Intel. No driver removal required, though I was prepared to do that. Even moved my RAID array right over, both Intel ICH based.

I've also gone from AMD to Intel twice with no issues on Windows 7 (though XP partition didn't make it) and 8.1.

Project files are not OS dependent, just Office version dependent and only really two standards for pre-2010 and earlier. Unless you are referring to programming projects, which would just need to be re-compiled? If you are using a modern IDE it should be relatively simple.

I just recommend taking a complete image of your system and putting it on a new drive. That way if you do mess up you still have the old drive to default back to if something goes wrong.
 
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I have a backup drive, I have two hard drives one 2tb with Windows 7 professional installed and another 2tb drive for extra storage but the secondary drive is about 80% full. Soon eventually I will backup my most important files. Not sure what's the best and easiest way to backup? Thousands of files
 
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I have the same processor i7 920 I mean it was ok for music production but honestly it's so old. Intel is up to the 6th gen and I was considering a 6700k. Another motherboard that would support 1151 socket will do for me. I guess the best thing would be to make a copy of my windows 7 to a new drive delete the drivers from the old motherboard and try to boot from that drive. If it doesn't work then I still have my original drive. Only concern is the programs and project files written and saved to the registry.
 
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I'm not sure what your concerns are related to the registry. If you clone the drive, there will be no differences at all. At that point it is just a matter of it booting and loading enough drivers to not crash before you install the appropriate ones. At no point in this should you attempt to install windows and copy files (though a clone of the registry may work, I have never made such an attempt)

Plenty of ways to back up small files. There are applications specifically for it, services like carbon copy to upload to the cloud, and even built in Windows tools (like robocopy) that are capable of it. But for what you are trying to do a backup is a separate matter.

Look up tools like Acronis TrueImage. Some OEM drives will even offer a cloning tool, free to use with their equipment only, for one way transfers. A free alternative would be Clonezilla, though a bit harder to use.
 
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Thanks. I will look into those. About the registry, what I'm referring to is when a project is saved within Windows. Plugins that you register on Windows will only open and correctly work with the operating system it was saved on. But If I were to do a copy of my drive that wouldn't matter, I'm only talking about doing a new install of Windows and re registering everything. If I was to open a project in the new Windows it would not recognize some samples and plugins correctly.
 
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Which processor do u recommend for music production? core i5 6600 or 6600k, core i7 6700 or 6700k? To pair along with a gtx 1070
 
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