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[Arclight]

Win7 mate, reïnstall takes me at most 30 mins. Getting it up to date another 15, if Win7 doesn't get latest files during install (think it does).

Installing drivers, configure Win to my taste and getting my software up and running again, that takes a whole day though.

Everything critical is on other drives/partitions, the random crap in My Documents and such is already backed up. Just 1 neat 64GB partition, all for the OS and software.


Right, think I'll just swap 'm out now. That board is just begging to be put into service.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Arclight

Win7 mate, reïnstall takes me at most 30 mins. Getting it up to date another 15, if Win7 doesn't get latest files during install (think it does).

Installing drivers, configure Win to my taste and getting my software up and running again, that takes a whole day though.

Everything critical is on other drives/partitions, the random crap in My Documents and such is already backed up. Just 1 neat 64GB partition, all for the OS and software.


Right, think I'll just swap 'm out now. That board is just begging to be put into service.

Well it can be done with win7 as well...

Just google "New motherboard old hard drive"

[Arclight]

So, new board installed and running. First surprise: I look in BIOS and find it lists a RAID disk. Check the RAID bios and sure enough, my array is fine and functioning. Second surprise: it boots right into Windows without any complaints and proceeds to install some new devices.

Talk about quick and painless... Think I'll still re-format though, just to make sure I don't run into any conflicts down the road.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Arclight

So, new board installed and running. First surprise: I look in BIOS and find it lists a RAID disk. Check the RAID bios and sure enough, my array is fine and functioning. Second surprise: it boots right into Windows without any complaints and proceeds to install some new devices.

Talk about quick and painless... Think I'll still re-format though, just to make sure I don't run into any conflicts down the road.

Probably wise who knows what kind of disastor waiting to happen is lurking in the registry

BTW I have had no issues at all with my machine just doing a recovery. I guess raid arrays and win7 are a tad more forgiving.

[Arclight]

I guess so, certainly didn't expect it to simply detect the array like that. But then, it's a small step from ICH9R to ICH10R.


Of course, Windows now refuses to activate because it thinks it's a different machine.