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Originally Posted by Fish
Drives? You would only need to backup your Windows drive. If you have other drives/partitions, you can reinstall Windows on the system drive/partition without affecting the data on other drives/partitions.
If you're just looking at transferring your Windows drive, there's quite a few alternatives, depending on how much time you want to spend. If you just need to back up your documents/pics/downloads/desktop/Windows settings from your system drive, Windows Migration Wizard would probably be the easiest method. But you'd have to reinstall all your apps and games on the new system. If you're wanting to transfer your Windows system and retain all your currently installed apps and basically have an exact copy on the new drive, it's doable but it will take considerable time and resources. Generally it's much better/cleaner to start from scratch or just use Windows Migration Wizard to copy your basic data and desktop settings. You'll need an external USB drive large enough to save the backup to.
If you are wanting an exact copy on the new drive, there are also options but not really recommended. You could technically put your Windows drive into a sysprep state, shutdown, then install the new mobo and cpu. That will allow the system to boot without catastrophic boot failure, so you can then install all the necessary drivers and such. It's a really dirty solution that will leave lots of unnecessary junk on your system and will take up unnecessary resources and drive space. But I've done it a few times. Could cause future problems, but might run just fine with zero issue. Try at your own risk, but if you're interested I can instruct you how.
There's also some apps you can buy that will do this for you. But they're usually rather pricey, and still have lots of risk involved.
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I just want to get a new 5600 or 5800 and a mobo, probably buy a bigger psu as well so once I can finally get a gpu I'll be ready to plug and play. I just don't want to have to reinstall everything again. Do you have any recommendations on mobo that will work without flashing the bios?