Well, it's time to say goodbye, I suppose, to my old MoBo and processor. It is 12 years old, after all, and it's served me well.
I'm ordering a new MoBo and Intel processor, memory, and a sink/fan, but I'm holding off buying a new drive at this point.
I tried installing Win10 over Win7 and it errored out after almost completing the installation for reasons I no longer recall -- it was a couple months ago when I last tried.
I'm hoping I can just install the old hard drive into the new system and then possibly try again to install Win10 over Win7. In the past I've had good luck with moving a hard drive from one machine to another, running the same OS, so I'm hoping the new machine will at least fire up running Win7. I have my doubts whether the Win10 over Win7 installation will work, but it's worth a try, I figure. The alternative is to do a fresh install, which obviously means I will have lost all data on Drive C. And then I get to reinstall dozens of programs, some of which have draconian copyright protection schemes, so I'm really not looking forward to dealing with that.
Recently I bought a license to Restoro, a sort of deep-cleanse product that helped some with my machine, but it still errors out when I try to install Win10 over Win7.
Any suggestions you might have on how I might resolve this issue would be helpful. If you need particulars, I guess I can try another install and record the error messages. If you think I'd be better off just biting the bullet and going with a clean install, I'd like to hear that as well.
I'm ordering a new MoBo and Intel processor, memory, and a sink/fan, but I'm holding off buying a new drive at this point.
I tried installing Win10 over Win7 and it errored out after almost completing the installation for reasons I no longer recall -- it was a couple months ago when I last tried.
I'm hoping I can just install the old hard drive into the new system and then possibly try again to install Win10 over Win7. In the past I've had good luck with moving a hard drive from one machine to another, running the same OS, so I'm hoping the new machine will at least fire up running Win7. I have my doubts whether the Win10 over Win7 installation will work, but it's worth a try, I figure. The alternative is to do a fresh install, which obviously means I will have lost all data on Drive C. And then I get to reinstall dozens of programs, some of which have draconian copyright protection schemes, so I'm really not looking forward to dealing with that.
Recently I bought a license to Restoro, a sort of deep-cleanse product that helped some with my machine, but it still errors out when I try to install Win10 over Win7.
Any suggestions you might have on how I might resolve this issue would be helpful. If you need particulars, I guess I can try another install and record the error messages. If you think I'd be better off just biting the bullet and going with a clean install, I'd like to hear that as well.
My Computer
At a glance
Win7 Ulitmate x64AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.2 GHz16 GBATI Radion HD 4290 on the MoBo
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home built
- OS
- Win7 Ulitmate x64
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.2 GHz
- Motherboard
- ASRock 890GX Pro3
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Radion HD 4290 on the MoBo
- Sound Card
- M-Audio Delta 66, AMD on MoBo
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG 34", AOC 22" flat screens
- Screen Resolution
- 2560x1080, 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- 3 TB, 750 gig, 500 gig
- PSU
- 500w
- Case
- no-name
- Cooling
- ps fan, case fan, cpu fan
- Keyboard
- Logitech
- Mouse
- Logitech
- Internet Speed
- 45+Mbps
- Antivirus
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- Browser
- Mozilla SeaMonkey, Chrome
- Other Info
- I'm a musician and a composer, so this PC is used primarily as a digital audio workstation (DAW), so sound is king. I'm also a photographer, so I also make use of it for image processing. I find the ATI Radion on the MoBo to be perfectly adequate in this respect and the AOC 22" monitor to be respectable. It's about time for an upgrade, though.
