• From: Frederick, MD
  • Registered: 2006-12-28
  • Posts: 851

Topic: Motherboard Swap - Data retention?

Greetings,

    Due to the recent death of my motherboard (RIP Asus A8n5x), it will be replaced with a Foxconn NF4sk88a-8ekrs mobo. Since I had all of the information under a passworded profile on the main hard drive, will I be able to access the information once the new mobo is installed?

I haven't done a mobo swap in years so I'm hoping that since the new mobo is Nforce4 as well, there shouldn't be any issues with the swap. I seem to recall that was the factor that delineated the reinstallation of windows the last time when My ASUS A8N-SLI board failed. I was able to replace it with the A8n5X board without any issues because they were both NFORCE4 boards and the drivers on the HD were all the same.

Or should I expect to just load up my spare SATA drive with xp and go recover the data from the former main drive from there?


TIA,
Dm

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  • From: Frederick, MD
  • Registered: 2006-12-28
  • Posts: 851

Re: Motherboard Swap - Data retention?

Well, I had to reinstall windows anyway since the PSU took out the hard drive I had in the case.
Had to replace it, the motherboard and the PSU. I decided to pick up a dual-core CPU while I was shopping since I found a good deal.

The new rig runs faster than the old but I'm hurting from the loss of all my save-games and programs I had installed on the old HD....

Ah well,
Dm

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but mediocrity knows nothing more than itself."

-Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle

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