Do I have to do a complete new install? (new mobo)

[Kris]

Present mobo has P35 ICH9R
New mobo Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P has P45 ICH10R

I had been assuming that I would have to do a full new install, but it just
occurred to me to ask if I could get away with a Repair, and would it ask
me for the floppy disk with the new drivers as the full install does?

(I do/will not use RAID)

tia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kris
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DFI Infinity Blood-Iron P35-T2RL | E7200 [email protected] | Vista on 36GB Raptor
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| 2x1gb OCZ Reaper1150@1203 | EVGA 9800GTX+ N873 |
| Vista indexing, superfetch, and prefetcher have been killed |
LiteOn DH401S08C at CP56 BluRay player | Hannspree HF289H 28" |
Raidmax RX530-SS psu | Vista Ult 32 SP1

 

[Kris]

Present mobo has P35 ICH9R
New mobo Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P has P45 ICH10R

I had been assuming that I would have to do a full new install, but it just
occurred to me to ask if I could get away with a Repair, and would it ask
me for the floppy disk with the new drivers as the full install does?

(I do/will not use RAID)

tia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh... I have SP1 installed so REPAIR won't work, I think. Any other way?
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Kris
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DFI Infinity Blood-Iron P35-T2RL | E7200 [email protected] | Vista on 36GB Raptor
|
| 2x1gb OCZ Reaper1150@1203 | EVGA 9800GTX+ N873 |
| Vista indexing, superfetch, and prefetcher have been killed |
LiteOn DH401S08C at CP56 BluRay player | Hannspree HF289H 28" |
Raidmax RX530-SS psu | Vista Ult 32 SP1

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Won't work as Vista doesn't support repair installation like XP and prior
versions did. If the hardware change is minor, then it may load ok without
reinstalling - simply try it after backing up all critical data. If you have
to reinstall, do so without formatting and the existing installation will be
moved to a windows.old folder on the drive where you can later regain access
to data (programs would need to be reinstalled).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Kris]

Thanks Rick. My other stuff is on 7 other partitions on 2 other spindles,
so nothing on C except C stuff.

Hi,

Won't work as Vista doesn't support repair installation like XP and prior
versions did. If the hardware change is minor, then it may load ok without
reinstalling - simply try it after backing up all critical data. If you have
to reinstall, do so without formatting and the existing installation will be
moved to a windows.old folder on the drive where you can later regain access
to data (programs would need to be reinstalled).

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Kris
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DFI Infinity Blood-Iron P35-T2RL | E7200 [email protected] | Vista on 36GB Raptor
|
| 2x1gb OCZ Reaper1150@1203 | EVGA 9800GTX+ N873 |
| Vista indexing, superfetch, and prefetcher have been killed |
LiteOn DH401S08C at CP56 BluRay player | Hannspree HF289H 28" |
Raidmax RX530-SS psu | Vista Ult 32 SP1

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

Thanks Rick. My other stuff is on 7 other partitions on 2 other spindles,
so nothing on C except C stuff.

Normally, "C: stuff" would include your programs and much of your
data, including Outlook .pst and archive files. Better back up your
data...

You'll be glad you did later.

 

[Kris]

Normally, "C: stuff" would include your programs and much of your
data, including Outlook .pst and archive files. Better back up your
data...

You'll be glad you did later.

yep, I have tons of backups.

But - shocker!!! : put in the new board and the old system booted right
up. All I did to try to aid that was to install the chipset drivers just
before shutting down, but I noticed that it only installed ICH09 and P35
stuff, so that shouldn't have made any difference.

It was a little slow at first as I installed the chipset drivers again and
then it had to go through and update all the drivers for the sata ports.

I had a worry last night that Acronis and other stand alone things I use
wouldn't work with the ICH10. Indeed, AcronisTI 11 won't, but their new
Acronis TI homne 2009 DOES, so there goes $30 ) Odly Acronis DD 10 now
works, especially if I use a cheap MS mouse instead of my Logitech wireless
USB.

GPARTED also works on the ICH10 chipset.

So I didn't have to re-install at all. Nice!
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Kris
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Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P | E7200 [email protected] | Vista on 36GB Raptor |
| 2x1gb OCZ Reaper1150@1203 | EVGA 9800GTX+ N873 |
| Vista indexing, superfetch, and prefetcher have been killed |
LiteOn DH401S08C at CP56 BluRay player | Hannspree HF289H 28" |
Raidmax RX530-SS psu | Vista Ult 32 SP1