VR PC help!

[Drexel Viehbock]

I currently have a CV1 (and a vive) and I want to upgrade MOBO, CPU and GPU.

MY current system is as follows:

i7-2600k
Gigabyte ga-h61m-usb3-b3 motherboard
12 gigs RAM
gtx980

I have win 10, oculus software and elite on the c: SSD drive. I do have a 2tb D: drive but nothing installed on it matters (steam and steam library)

Now for my question. What is the easiest and most successful way to prepare the c: drive for switch over. I dont want to have to reinstall win 10 if possible, can it be done?

thanks,

Drex

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

I currently have a CV1 (and a vive) and I want to upgrade MOBO, CPU and GPU.

MY current system is as follows:

i7-2600k
Gigabyte ga-h61m-usb3-b3 motherboard
12 gigs RAM
gtx980

I have win 10, oculus software and elite on the c: SSD drive. I do have a 2tb D: drive but nothing installed on it matters (steam and steam library)

Now for my question. What is the easiest and most successful way to prepare the c: drive for switch over. I dont want to have to reinstall win 10 if possible, can it be done?

thanks,

Drex

To be honest, whenever I have done anything like that it is much easier to reinstall.

 

[Drexel Viehbock]

Yeah I know it usually is, but, that is not really an answer to my question.

Thanks tho...

Drex

 

[Tenshi]

To be honest I have never had much luck with what you are asking to do. Often when you change the mobo windows will see it as a new system and ask for a key to unlock it, not sure if this has changed though.

You could partition some of the D drive off and make an image of the C drive to it, in theory this would copy the C drive to the new partition on the D drive. Then change the hardware you are looking at and then reinstate the image from the partition back to the C drive.

Personally I prefer to reinstall windows when ever I build a new pc or swap out major hardware like a mobo this way I know the drivers are new and up to date without any of the older ones hanging around to cause conflict. It also frees up space as a lot of old windows updates sometimes remain behind when they get superseded.

I made a windows 10 USB drive so if I ever wanted to reinstall the OS I could do it from that, if you're quick I would also do the same before you have to pay for it.

 

[Drexel Viehbock]

I have done what I speak of before, a long time ago, like vista days. I already made an image of the c: drive. I am hoping I can just uninstall all drivers from the device manager and then after I reboot it will think it is vanilla. If not, I will just reinstall, but I was hoping for a faster upgrade time, no biggie.

Thanks so much for the input. I had hoped to get someone who had windows 10 and had done exactly what I am describing to give me some pointers on the most important things to uninstall. I will report back after I have ateempted this for everyone's future reference.

Thanks again,

Drex

 

[Wolfox]

Take the best High level for everything
My Opinion with the Intel Haswell family you make a decent PC that is futureproof and not toooooo expensive. Maybe just look if there won't be any bottlenecks with incoming future DDR memories.
For GPU, I won't even answer, you know already what to get(1080).
I think Memory standards are moving from 8 to 16, then 32 would be more than enough.
IMHO

PS: I did MB, CPU and I had to reinstall, Better ;-D

 

[Chainguns]

I wonder if you aren't shooting yourself in the foot, spending all that money on a new mobo and GPU only to see a significant chance of slowdowns and crashes from old registry entries improperly copied services and other transplant junk - SSDs are notoriously hard to clone.

It's an hour of hassle to get all your old preferences back, versus two years of potentially slower operation and "random" crashes. Anyways, hope it works out for you.

 

[El_Labero]

doesn´t work, reinstall is a must.Like chainguns said..there a lots of optimations during install, which will make lots of errors on your system when you change mobo..use a memory stick for reinstall and you are under 20 min for a clean install

 

[buyback]

Its really a pity that there is nothing like Apple Time Machine/Migration to another pc available on Windows still since years...#

BUT I found and use this: Theres a Windows imaging Toolkit Script available from a famous german computer magazine "C't" called WiMage that also works for 10 (I uses it for full backup to a network share).
Essentially it uses windows inbuilt tools to create a installer image like for mass rollout on corporate stuff. So its putting a Win10 Installer + all your apps/configs onto an drive you specify/prepare. You can then boot this on another machine an reinstall/restore.
That should work over different hardware as long as the new one is win10 compatible

Its really easy and cool to use.
Its german though, you'll need some google translate possibly - and give it a try before reinstalling from scratch:

Announcement of Win10 Compatibility and some youtube video of it:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...kup-unterstuetzt-auch-Windows-10-3116411.html

Full Article with scriptlink (you don't need to buy for reading if not interested, tool and FAQ is at the end of page for 32/64bit):
http://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2016...n-von-Windows-8-1-und-Windows-10-3100549.html

have fun with it.

 

[dogbite]

Yeah I know it usually is, but, that is not really an answer to my question.

Thanks tho...

Drex

Overclock your cpu (if you haven't already) and throw a GTX 1080 in it. Almost all games are gpu heavy. If that doesn't give you enough oomph for what you play, you would be advised to do a fresh install. If you OS is an OEM version you will have to anyway if you change your cpu and mobo. Even if it's a retail version, a fresh install will avoid all sorts of possible issue over trying to change out your hardware and convince Windows to behave. In the long run a fresh install will be much more stable and faster.

If your Win 10 is and upgrade of an earlier version oem you will have to buy a new win10 for a new cpu/mobo upgrade.

 

[Beavis Tingleball]

ALWAYS reinstall OS with new hardware..always...

 

[dogbite]

I have done what I speak of before, a long time ago, like vista days. I already made an image of the c: drive. I am hoping I can just uninstall all drivers from the device manager and then after I reboot it will think it is vanilla. If not, I will just reinstall, but I was hoping for a faster upgrade time, no biggie.

Thanks so much for the input. I had hoped to get someone who had windows 10 and had done exactly what I am describing to give me some pointers on the most important things to uninstall. I will report back after I have ateempted this for everyone's future reference.

Thanks again,

Drex

Given you could install windows 10 on an ssd in very little time (15-20min), I can't imagine why you wouldn't go clean install. You could move ED off to another drive, do the new build and move it back and re-install Occ Home. Again if your image of Win 10 is OEM ,it won't work on the new cpu/mobo. If it is Retail it will take just as much time or longer to move the image, strip out all the old drivers and install new ones. You won't need to re-install all your steam games, just Steam itself.

 

[Drexel Viehbock]

Only wanted to do it this way since I have my OS configured "Just perfectly" lol, BTW, I uninstalled ALL drivers from device manager for my peripherals, switched out MB, CPU, RAM. I put it all back together, booted up and it worked without a hitch! Win 10 complained for a few minutes until all drivers were re installed, but now it is just fine, took like 10-15 minutes to get back to where I left off on the other hardware. Thanks all!