Re: Moving HD to new system
- From: pcbldrNinetyEight <pcbldrninetyeight.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:57:06 -0000
Mark F <mark49607@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:af26s39mmqgkjg498cmtvhcmvrjbqs2n92@xxxxxxx:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:16:14 GMT, in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
wrote in part:
Whether reinstalling Windows is critical or not, I don't see whyEven Windows is a problem since it may be impossible to follow
anyone would/should shy away from doing a reinstallation of Windows
on a freshly formatted hard drive when they are replacing the
mainboard, especially if it is their own system.
the path that got you where you are.
My typical system came with a few of its own drivers
(because the manufacturer decided that he had to mess with stuff),
a Microsoft Windows official distribution disk (that obviously doesn't
correspond to the version that was actually used to make the system
that the original installed Windows on my machine came from),
and furthermore was upgraded from Windows XP to SP1 to SP2 by
me, and probably even has had the physical system disk changed
a time or two.
Even with the original Microsoft Windows disks and the {Dell, Compaq
(now hp), and hp} driver disk, reinstallation is iffy. In particular,
the two most recent times I tried I could reinstall Windows to
either of the two different model systems that I tried, even with a
few hours me getting stepped through the procedures over the phone
by the {major company's) US based support people. Each time they gave
up and offered me replacement hardware, and I had to spend a day or
2 fixing the original problem with what should have been a more
difficult and more time consuming procedure than just installing
a few programs on the luckily fairly new systems. (Only 20 or so
add-on programs, rather than the 500 and 3500 on my personal
machines.)
Seems to me that when someone is afraid of reinstalling Windows, you
can guess that they do not have a copy of important files from their
hard drive.
Windows and programs settings are a good reason to avoid
reinstalling stuff, but the lack of removable media copies of
important data is a possible bad reason.
Like maybe they don't know
how to locate, copy, and then reapply important personal/program
data to a new installation.
Good luck getting everything. TurboTax and a bunch of other things
don't have install disks or files that you can use to install stuff.
You have to get at least some stuff online. TurboTax (Intuit?), in
particular doesn't keep stuff around long enough so that you can
install all of the old versions of the software that you might need
in case you get audited.
Even if you have installation files for everything, you probably
can't do things in the same order that they were done the first
time, so things may not wind up the same.
Also, good luck in getting all of your data, let alone all of your
settings, copied from the old system.
This is why I:
Build my own PCs.
Still use WIN98SE.
Don't buy software that requires online update that can't be saved to HD
for future install.
Organizing my data carefully and do regular backups.
Am leaving Windows for Linux.
A reinstall of the OS, all apps and personal data is sometimes mandatory.
If you can't do it your hardware is scrap.
--
pcbldrNinetyEight
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