W7 image restored to a new and different MB

[jimmyj68]

As short as possible - my DP55SB motherboard went south. It had been acting up for almost a month and about 4 times I was able to get it going again. Two of those times I used a system image from an external HDD backed up using Win7 Home Premium backup system.

Once, and again a second time, windows simply disappeared from the C drive. NewEgg promptly sent me a DH67BLB3 board and an I5-7500K processor. Everything is purring along nicely using the board's stock audio and video capabilities (hence the I5-7500K). I installed the same set of WIN 7 64 DVD's to install the program on the new board and processor. I planned to copy an image from the backup, but WIN 7 wants me to re-configure the back up and do a new backup. It warns that a previously stored image may be overwritten and give me nothing of my extensive programs and files that are on the backup.

Question #1- can you restore an image to a completely different board and processor?

Question #2- is there anyway to get around the possiblity that the image I want will be overwritten?

As I write this I think I remember there is an option to not create and image. Will that protect the image from last month that I want to place on my system?

I opted out of activation of windows because it is an OEM version and will balk at the new MB and CPU. I don't feel like the hassle of talking to somebody in a land far away to get them to let me activate WIN 7 again. I reinstalled WIN7 on the old motherboard at least three times as I struggled with what looked like a dying DP55SB. Blue screens, complete loss of video, hanging up on boot and sitting there forever, always getting video when F2 into the bios and then getting a big nothing from then on. What do you think folks? I've ordered a new win7 home premium that has SP1. Reinstalling a win7 from before SP1 means hours of installing new files and then SP1 and somemore new files ad nauseum. When I get some guidance from the folks out there I will use that giudance on the new Home Premium. It took hours to get WIN 7 to where it is now as I type. There must be a million updates. This WIN7 is about 3 years old.

 

[Matt1970]

Image backups are not my thing. Usually by the time you update the old image you are better off just doing a fresh install anyways, however I believe in Windows setup under repair is the option to restore from an older image. I am not sure if that will install the correct chipset drivers or not.

 

[ViRGE]

Q1) Officially no. However an Intel to Intel upgrade almost never fails; Intel chipsets haven't significantly changed since before the C2D days. It's when you try to jump between AMD and Intel that things go south.

 

[JackMDS]

Quote: "can you restore an image to a completely different board and processor"?

Yes if the backup and restore are done with Acronis® True Image™ Home 2012 Plus Pack.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832200033

 

[jimmyj68]

Let me see if I understand this----If I get Acronis - install it on my new board/WIN7 - it will go to my inplace external backup, backed up using the WIN7 system, and plunk that info down on my new board/cpu and everything will be just like it was before! Did I get it right???

 

[jimmyj68]

Matt970, thnaks for that heads-up. The image from the DP55SB board will bring in all of the operating drivers from that board and could completely hose the drivers on the new board. That's a scary prospect. But like ViRGE says there may not be such a difference between the 67 chipset and the 55 cipset that minor tweaks like simply reinstalling the drivers for the 67 chipset will fix it. But if the clash between the chipset drivers is severe enough I may not have an operating MB and can't reinstall the drivers.

I'll try the repair option on the win7 DVD although during my struggles to get the old system to behave it often told me there was no image when I know there was,.....

 

[jimmyj68]

I brief update. I tried the in program back-up/restorer and retrieved the image from 28 March. It tok some finagling and reinstalling the motherboard drivers/video etc. as i was using GTX 460 vid card before not onboard video, and the same with onboard sound as i used an ASUS card before. But soon everything seemed to be as it was on 28 March. Reinstalled the latest Intel HD video driver - rebooted - and No Video. Tried some of the usual tricks and still no video - not even in bios mode. Fearing I had lost the video system on the MB I hooked up the spare System I had used to communicate with AT and ---no video. On a hunch-I turned off the monitor and uplugged it for a while. Plugged it back in, turned it on, and video. Ever have a monitor to pull a stunt like that?