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Help with transferring components!

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FearoftheNight

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My mom made the unforunate mistake of buying an emachine. I told I could transfer most of the components (amd cpu/ram/video card/hard drive/optical drive) into a SFF shuttle box. My question is how can I switch the hard drive without doing a fresh install? Right now I believe its using a Via Chipset ECS L7MM2 motherboard. Can I just uninstall via drivers and install nvidia nforce2 drivers? Thanks guy!
 
it comes w/ winxp home....and I only have the original system restore from emachine so I'm not even sure how to do a fresh install without a disc of my own
 
With XP it's doubtful that you can do a motherboard swap and get a decent, stable system, although there are probably some people here that have done it. I've never been able to do it with Windows 2000.

Sounds like you might need to buy a copy of Windows XP. The restore disk for eMachines may or may not work. I don't have any experience there. With Dell, some of the earlier system disks would allow it, but the later one's required a Dell system.
 
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Thnx for prompt reply. So you are saying that I can try using restore disk when everything is plugged into new motherboard?
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Yeah, you can try it, but I can't be certain that any applications or data will still be intact. Be sure to backup anything that is seriously important.
 
Actually the reason my mom wants a diff setup is that the old one just messed up and we just got sent a new hard drive. So we have nothing to lose. So I guess that a good thing? :evil:
 
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Actually the reason my mom wants a diff setup is that the old one just messed up and we just got sent a new hard drive. So we have nothing to lose. So I guess that a good thing? :evil:
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Cool! That's definitely the best way to start! 😀
 
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