A Digital Age Deserves A Digital Leader

Upgrading My Computer-Using Same Hard Drive

Upgrading My Computer-Using Same Hard Drive

Postby flash_659 » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:14 am

Hi all, Merry Christmas to everyone here!

OK now to the point, I am about to start building myself a whole new computer, the only thing that I am not going to get rid of is my Sata 1 HDD, my question is: When i have put my new computer together can i just plug in my HDD and Vista Ultimate will boot up normally?

I am currently using a P4 3.2 GHz with 1gb DDR2 533 ram and am upgrading to a Core 2 Duo 7300 (2.66Ghz) with 3gb DDR2 800 ram. At the moment Vista takes about 5 minutes to completely start up, will the new system also make it go much faster?

Thankyou in advance.
PRO Level 2
User avatar
Posts: 26
Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:35 am
Location: Australia

Postby yeshuas » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:46 am

You are just changing the CPU is that correct

Then it will not be a problem
Game Over!!!!!!!!
Image
ASUS Maximus V Gene MB
Windows 8 X64; Windows 7 X64; Windows 7 X86
Intel I5-3570K
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
eVGA GeForce GTX 550 TI
Corsair GS700 PS
1TB Seagate SATA 6.0Gb HD
Thermaltake Case
Software Development
User avatar
Posts: 5075
Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:29 pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Real Name: Daniel Schmidt

Postby flash_659 » Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:25 am

No, I am changing the motherboard as well, as my current motherboard doesn't support dual core.
PRO Level 2
User avatar
Posts: 26
Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:35 am
Location: Australia

Postby augie » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:23 am

At the moment Vista takes about 5 minutes to completely start up, will the new system also make it go much faster?


Yes, a dual core will make Vista boot up faster but you don't have a shabby older processor either. There's no way it should take that long to boot up on your P4, I had a much slower AMD proc that booted in abit more than a minute.!

Have you disconnected everything like USB cables and extra cards besides the main video card? It could be that Vista is looking for drivers. BTW, did you you remove all the crap promotional junk yet? That will certainly slow you down on boot up too.
Last edited by augie on Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung

eVGA X58 tri-SLI, i7 930 @ 3.8GHz., Corsair 6GB Dominator, Inno3D GTX470, eVGA260
ASUS P8P67 Pro, i7 2600K @4.60 GHz, 8GB RAM, eVGA GTX 460
Community Director
User avatar
Posts: 7870
Joined: Mon Aug 26, 2002 1:55 am
Location: Laurentians, Quebec

Postby flash_659 » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:31 am

I've disabled lots of start-up programs and that seems to have wiped off about a minute, I do have my usb headset and a ready-boost usb connected though, ill try startup without them. That startup time does include all the stuff before it boots into windows aswell.
PRO Level 2
User avatar
Posts: 26
Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:35 am
Location: Australia

Postby augie » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:58 am

flash_659 wrote:I've disabled lots of start-up programs and that seems to have wiped off about a minute, I do have my usb headset and a ready-boost usb connected though, ill try startup without them. That startup time does include all the stuff before it boots into windows aswell.


Well, it's time for the sack for me as it's 2AM here. I hope you got it fixed.:)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung

eVGA X58 tri-SLI, i7 930 @ 3.8GHz., Corsair 6GB Dominator, Inno3D GTX470, eVGA260
ASUS P8P67 Pro, i7 2600K @4.60 GHz, 8GB RAM, eVGA GTX 460
Community Director
User avatar
Posts: 7870
Joined: Mon Aug 26, 2002 1:55 am
Location: Laurentians, Quebec

Re: Upgrading My Computer-Using Same Hard Drive

Postby JabbaPapa » Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:45 am

flash_659 wrote:OK now to the point, I am about to start building myself a whole new computer, the only thing that I am not going to get rid of is my Sata 1 HDD, my question is: When i have put my new computer together can i just plug in my HDD and Vista Ultimate will boot up normally?


It may or it may not boot, basically depending on whether or not the new motherboard will have a similar enough chipset to the old one --- however, because of the methods that are used by Vista to install itself, it will be very unlikely that your configuration would be optimal even if it were bootable, and a clean install of Vista would be very strongly recommended in my opinion.

flash_659 wrote:I am currently using a P4 3.2 GHz with 1gb DDR2 533 ram and am upgrading to a Core 2 Duo 7300 (2.66Ghz) with 3gb DDR2 800 ram. At the moment Vista takes about 5 minutes to completely start up, will the new system also make it go much faster?


Absolutely !!! 5 minutes is a heck of a long time for Vista to boot !!

Please note that if switching your current setup to a new motherboard successfully booted, any faster boot time that you might observe would be more due to the fact that your system boot is currently very very slow ; and NOT an indication that the HDD + Vista migration had been successful ;)

---

Actually, I would take that 5 minute boot time, even with only 1GB of medium speed RAM, as an indication that your Vista needed a clean install in any case ;)

---

But you never know, you might get lucky ;)
Image
PRO VETERAN
User avatar
Posts: 9538
Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:17 pm
Location: Monte-Carlo
Real Name: Julian Lord

Postby e to the x » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:31 pm

I second Jabba's advice. A reformat is strongly recomended. :yesnod:
Image
~Main Rig~
Phenom II X6
GA-870a-UD3
8 GB Corsair DDR3-1333
eVGA 9800GT
WD Black 500 GB
WD Black 1 TB
WD Green 1 TB
Seagate 250 GB
W7 x64
~Audio Stream Rig~
Athlon XP 2000+
MSI Motherboard
1 GB DDR-400
SoundBlaster Audigy2
160 GB HDD
WinXP
PROfessional Member
User avatar
Posts: 3098
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:55 pm
Location: Long Island, NY

Postby _Taz_ » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:29 pm

i third that!

backup your data, clean install and start over. something is amiss if it takes that long to boot.
PRO Level 13
User avatar
Posts: 848
Joined: Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:01 pm
Location: Florida

Postby flash_659 » Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:13 pm

I'm going to make a new thread in the other Vista Help part where my other thread is, so please all go there as this is starting to go into a new topic.
PRO Level 2
User avatar
Posts: 26
Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:35 am
Location: Australia

Next

Return to Hardware and Customizing

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

cron
cron