[dba-Tech] System Upgrade

Hi Jon

That's one of the reasons why we always recommend to leave the old as
is. How much does a case and cd-drive cost? You would by a new
harddrive anyway (no fun having a hi-speed board and a veteran drive).

This allows you to built the new, get it running including all fine
tuning while having the old as backup and later a spare for some other
use - like give away to a student or some charity.

/gustav


> Date: 2004-10-29 17:38

> Hi all
 
> I've got a new motherboard, memory and processor to put in my pc (I say new,
> it's new to me, it's a year old that I got from a friend as payment for
> building his new pc).
 
> At the moment, I've got a 5 year old motherboard ram and chip combo that is
> in deperate need of disposal. Normally I'd just rip it all out and shove the
> new bits in, but last time I did that, I rather killed the os, and ended up
> formatting the hard drive, which later died and had to be replaced... I
> remember someone mentioning Sysprep, but having looked it up I can't find
> any reference to it other than for making images of pc's for instant
> installs on network workstations. Is Sysprep the right tool for me? How do I
> use it?
 
> I want a faster system, but not at the expense of losing all my files...