When physically moving a HDD that was on one motherboard to a another motherboard is it recommended to back up all partitions for the HDD or just as long as you have the active windows partition HDD backed up, it doesn't matter ?
You should have your data backed up, regardless of which partition it is on and regardless of whether or not you are changing motherboards.
You don't have to back up any partitions.
The hard drive may or may not boot on the new motherboard.
you need to run sysprep
Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer
The hard drive may or may not boot. The backup I have claims they can install the backup to different hardware. Why I ask, do I need to back up the other partitions that are not the boot partitions, just as long as I have the main windows boot partition backed up all other partitions will restore with ease, of course putting into consideration if the backup is capable of a task. Why do I need to run sysprep ?
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