"dupont" wrote in message
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I have done this before, years ago, and I seem to remember that the best
strategy to use when installing the drives on the new mother board is to
initially boot into safe mode and then let the system discover the new
hardware. The system then worked OK.

I have also done it before and had a failure.

What is the best sequence of events to follow to ensure a functioning
system on the new motherboard installation with the old hard drives.

I have so much installed on the working system and so many saved passwords
etc that I really do not want to re-install the whole system on the new
motherboard setup.

Any suggestions welcome.


I remember on the previous failed upgrade it was a AMD Intel change that
is why I specifically mentioned it.

Yes Scott, it's all those little tweaks and things set to my preference that
can take ages to remember if you ever do remember them all.

One thing in my favour is that after trying it, and if it fails, I can
always recreate a clone of the original disk again.

I'll do some more searching first so any further ideas welcome.