Hard drive with w7, install without formatting on another pc?

[Franziskaner]

@Obione:

That's a paste that you should only do if you migrate to the same chipset.

why? if you have to put all the drivers back anyway (those of the graphics card and etc.) it is true that it is better to do a "clean" installation but I don't think it's very bad either.
explain it to me Obione you leave me with the doubt
greetings

[Obione]

It's like repairing instead of reinstalling or like defragmenting instead of formatting. Windows is a System that degrades and that configures many things specifically for the hardware. Think that the motherboard governs everything, changing a processor is nonsense but jumping from platform is not.

[kelven]

Correct, I would only consider it with the same chipset and similar hardware specifications... otherwise there are tools to migrate user profiles from one PC to another.

[amd125]

I only recommend it as an emergency. At the time, I think I switched from the AMD 939 platform to the Intel 775 without formatting or anything… straight out of the box... and the truth is, the computer worked well; but after a short time, I formatted it.

Anyway, I usually format every six months, maximum before reaching a year.

[Obione]

I think it's a bit excessive. With XP, I used to recover the image at 9 months, once it crashed after a few months, but that wasn't normal. With Windows 7, it lasts even longer, although it also failed at 6 months before the SP. I'm going to skip 8 and I won't migrate to 9 until the SP arrives.

[Franziskaner]

@amd125:

I only recommend it as an emergency. At the time, I think I switched from the AMD 939 platform to the Intel 775 without formatting or anything... just like that... and the truth is that the computer worked well for me; but after a short time I formatted it.

Anyway, I'm the type of person who formats every six months at most, before reaching a year.

that's a bit extreme (the thing about formatting every six months)
regards
P.D. the thing about migrating from an AMD to an Intel, I did it for a family member who had problems installing the OS and without any problems

[amd125]

@Obione:

It seems a bit excessive to me. With XP, I used to recover the image every 9 months, once it crashed after a few months, but that was not the norm. With Windows 7, it lasts even longer, although it also failed at 6 months before the SP. I'm going to skip 8 and I won't migrate to 9 until the SP arrives.

Is there a free program to make an image? I'm going to format soon, either next week or mid-August, as I'm going on vacation for a few days, and I'd like to be able to make an image once it's installed.

Anyway, let's see if 256GB SSDs drop in price a bit more and I'll get one :ugly: although with my WD Black 2TB I'm not complaining, but of course it's not an SSD :llorar:

Thanks.

[Obione]

With the 7 from the professional you have one but it is very slow and does not allow you to do almost anything. You should not change the partitions or select the deletion of partitions if you do not want to load the ones you have on that disk in addition to the System. If you do not mind loading them with this option it is less slow.

With the latest Acronis you will have alignment of an unaligned partition (important for SSD), the image will weigh less, you will have many more configuration options and a much faster program.

I could not tell you free versions, I do not know if there was an old version of Ghost free, I looked at it once and having had Acronis it did not seem intuitive to me.

[amd125]

Thanks, I'll look into it. The thing is, my disk has a partition of about a Tera, and I don't want to risk it because I have it full.

I'll look into it. Anyway, I think I'll format it and next time I'll already have an SSD or so I hope and I won't format as much.

[fliper]

so that, for a drastic change of platform it is not recommended….., I read something about "sysprep" as an option on the installation disk, but, well seeing your opinions...... I would like to leave this current computer strictly for the musical theme, and it would be so convenient, to buy an ssd for this one, and transfer the current disks without having to erase anything, to the new platform that.....

[Franziskaner]

I think you can always install the operating system on top of the old one and keep the folders you have full. In any case, don't you have backups?
Regards

[krampak]

You are right, I used it for this purpose years ago but I hardly remember how it worked. With the sysprep you could clone disks between different machines and when you started it would 'finish' the Windows installation as if it were newly installed (at the level of hardware IDs, drivers, etc.).

[Fassou]

@amd125:

¿Algún programa gratuito para hacer imagen?

If you have a WD HDD, you can download Acronis True Image for free from their website (WD) :sisi:. They have it like that, to avoid problems with the new HDDs with ADF and so that you can clone images from "normal" HDDs to those that use this new system.

You can also use the free version of Macrium Reflect, which is very easy to use, although the advanced options are hidden so that you will have to pay for the professional version. Even so, it is very good for backups, and allows you to mount images as disk drives.

Salu2!

[amd125]

@Fassou:

If you have a WD HDD, you can download Acronis True Image for free from their website (WD) :sisi:. They have it like this, to avoid problems with the new HDDs with ADF and so that you can clone images of "normal" HDDs to those that use this new system.

You can also use the free version of Macrium Reflect, which is very easy to use, although the advanced options are hidden so that you will have to pay for the professional version. Even so, it is very good for backups, and allows you to mount images as disk drives.

Salu2!

Many thanks, I'll look into it. I'll see if I can get myself to do it, I'm just feeling lazy :frio: