- Nov 6, 2004
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My P4 @1.7 Ghz Willamette is beginning to show its age. The Mobo is Gigabyte GA-81RX. The video card is NVIDIA GeForce 2MX (AGP). The RAM is DDR 266 PC2100--1 x 512MB + 1 x 256 MB = 768MB total.
I'm not into gaming or any intense graphics. Computer is mostly used for music playback through E-MU PCI sound card analog output to Harman Kardon 2 channel stereo simultaneous with web surfing, email and usual desktop apps. I have about 80 GBs of MP3s and other format music tracks on the HDDs.
I currently have two 128 GB ATA 100 HDDs--the second used only for a Ghost image of the primary. The primary is about to fail--several crashes--new noises--some data/settings lost. However the Ghost Image just predates those problems. So having the ability to restore that image to a new HDD is important to me.
I would like to take advantage of this situation to do a major upgrade replacing the Mobo and CPU. I would like to keep the existing video card and RAM at least temporarily for $$$ reasons. I would like to replace the two existing HDDs with 250GB SATAs--one as primary (boot) drive--the other for Ghost image. I'll also keep the good ATA 128GB HDD for extra storage.
Once I install the new Mobo, CPU and SATA drive I would like to restore the Ghost image from the good ATA drive to the new SATA drive. Is this feasible? What are the pitfalls and booby traps in attempting this?
This is the most ambitious PC project I've ever attempted. Till now it's been swapping PCI cards, installing memory, swapping HDDs, etc. Any help/advice greatly appreciated.
BTW the CPU I have in mind is: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor (Venice) Socket 939 Retail. The Mobo is: MSI K8N Neo2-F.
TIA...
bc
I'm not into gaming or any intense graphics. Computer is mostly used for music playback through E-MU PCI sound card analog output to Harman Kardon 2 channel stereo simultaneous with web surfing, email and usual desktop apps. I have about 80 GBs of MP3s and other format music tracks on the HDDs.
I currently have two 128 GB ATA 100 HDDs--the second used only for a Ghost image of the primary. The primary is about to fail--several crashes--new noises--some data/settings lost. However the Ghost Image just predates those problems. So having the ability to restore that image to a new HDD is important to me.
I would like to take advantage of this situation to do a major upgrade replacing the Mobo and CPU. I would like to keep the existing video card and RAM at least temporarily for $$$ reasons. I would like to replace the two existing HDDs with 250GB SATAs--one as primary (boot) drive--the other for Ghost image. I'll also keep the good ATA 128GB HDD for extra storage.
Once I install the new Mobo, CPU and SATA drive I would like to restore the Ghost image from the good ATA drive to the new SATA drive. Is this feasible? What are the pitfalls and booby traps in attempting this?
This is the most ambitious PC project I've ever attempted. Till now it's been swapping PCI cards, installing memory, swapping HDDs, etc. Any help/advice greatly appreciated.
BTW the CPU I have in mind is: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor (Venice) Socket 939 Retail. The Mobo is: MSI K8N Neo2-F.
TIA...
bc