ceedj Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hi guys. I'm getting the "band" computer back (band has dis-banded, and I own all the computer stuff) and I want to integrate it with some of my old parts from my current machine. I have (home PC): Athlon 2000 XP (1.67 ghz) 512 MB SDRAM NVidia GF FX5200 128 AGP 200 GB WD HD (only 150 active due to a BIOS limitation) DVD ROM/DVD-RW I'm getting (band PC): Pentium Celeron 2.7ghz on an ASUS board 512 MB DDR Ram (I think it's 333, but I have to dobule check) NVidia GF 2 MX 400 32MB AGP 40GB WD HD Neatoriffic Lan party case with handle So I think my best bet would be to put the newer video, HD and DVD drives in the band PC, but here's my problem: I'm right in the middle of recording sessions with my sister on my old machine. I have all the old program discs I need to reinstall software and plugins, but it'll be a royal PITA and I'm a bit leery of doing a recovery install when moving the hard drive. So my options are this: 1) Back up the sound files from the recodings (about 10GB ) on the 40GB hard drive, back up anything else to DVD and wipe the 200GB HD and reinstall Windows on the new machine, giving me the full 200GB capacity... 2) Back up the sound files, but do a Recovery Installation and save all my installed programs. 3) Wait until the recording is finished, mixed and mastered (about two more months). It should be noted that my Athlon has a 256K Cache and a 133 FSB, while the Celeron has only a 128K Cache, but a 100 FSB (the MB tops out at 400). So I'd lose half the cache, but get a significant speed boost. Or will I? Any ideas on this would be most appreciated. Sorry for the verbosity. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vystral Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I'd have to say back everything up, then do a recovery installation. That way, if it works, you'll be good to go; if it doesn't, you didn't lose anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 1) Back up the sound files from the recodings (about 10GB ) on the 40GB hard drive, back up anything else to DVD and wipe the 200GB HD and reinstall Windows on the new machine, giving me the full 200GB capacity... option 1 makes the most sense if you install the 40gb drive as a slave on the athlon machine since you won't be using the OS on it then. afterwards, you can wipe the 200gb drive and install it as a slave on the celeron machine using the 40gb drive as the OS drive or install it then wipe it. xp, after being installed on two different types of motherboards won't allow them to boot on the other machine anyway. You can use the 200gb as a separate partition or as several partitions or even mount it as a folder on the 40gb drive so you can still save programs and files to drive c: but it'll be like c:\new drive. If you don't want both drives then you can ghost the 40gb drive and then copy it to the 200gb drive and format the extra 160gb later. does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceedj Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 after being installed on two different types of motherboards won't allow them to boot on the other machine anyway. Actually, I'm not using a OEM version of XP, so I can do a recovery install and then this won't be an issue, or so my research tells me. Although I think I'm leaning more towards option 1 anyway. I've got another day to think it over; I just need to find all of my recording software upgrades so I don't lose my plugin settings on all my tracks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I found this site that explains things well enough for both of us I think. I wish you good luck in whatever you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceedj Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 Ha! That was one of the first sites I found. Great minds, eh? :) EDIT: Tried a recovery install, didn't work. Kept getting stuck at the add devices part. Two things I did remember though. 1) I have a 160GB HD, not 200. The confusion stems from the fact that I had to partition the drive to get the full capacity. No biggie though, as this works out. 2) I managed to back up anythng important from the C: drive (mostly programing souce code I had been working on for my GTA mods), so that went well. The good news? I got Windows and my recording software reinstalled, and since all of the recordings are on the D: drive, everything loaded just fine. Now to find all of my game discs. :cyclops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 humm why not just move all the parts to your band pc keeping the mb/cpu/ram.... keep everything else the same & try to boot up with your existing hdd installation.... it would look like you just ug the mem/me/cpu.... a change in cpu/mb shouldn't make much diference????? *** but bac-up your hdd first though!!!!**** play it safe!!!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 different motherboards need different drivers, different cpu types need different slots/sockets which means different data paths and software.... in other words, winxp could go absolutely batsh*t swapping parts like that without giving it a chance to load up new software to utilize it's new hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bones2097 Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 how bout using the XP in recovery mode?? or what i'd do would to boot-up into safe mode & install new drivers then ??? anywho.... looks like you need to do a clean reinstallation.... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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