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    Well I got some special plugins for 3ds max, I don't have the installers.

    I have some software which I don't have an installer of anymore and some hard to find.
    I do 3d stuff and the total amount of work thats on the harddrive is about 4 years work.
    I can't lose that

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    Quote Originally Posted by danielbriggs View Post
    No!

    It seems however much I say "strongly not recommended" it seems you aren't fussed.
    I'm not going into the reg keys here and now.
    So as a parting point "SysPrep" *if you're really, unnecessarily keen*
    (But you could have had it reinstalled by now!)

    Ghost it first, run sysprep (with the shutdown option), move drive to new mobo.
    Should work (well I have a ghost image that has been sysprep'd that seems okay with SATA - the master PC is an old Pentium 3). You probably need to copy the drivers into place though. Quite technical though and lots of trial and error ... so maybe a repair install might be easier in the end.

    That is what you mean?

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    Quote Originally Posted by danielbriggs View Post
    ^
    No, it is not the HDD drivers if it detects the drives are there.
    It's the fact you've changed your chipset.
    The only time it could be HDD drivers is if there are NO drives detected. Usually because of AHCI, RAID or SAS controllers etc. Win 7 is pretty good with that though. XP needed further "persuasion"...

    Trust me, reinstall.
    (Or swap your motherboard again for one of the same chipset)

    Edit: You said you had 2 drives. Boot from a LiveCD, move any data from the non-OS drive to the OS drive. Disconnect this drive. Reinstall onto 2nd disk, then re-copy data back.

    Hmm ok I will try that.
    Problem Is I have LOADS and LOADS of data.
    luckly I also have on the external HDD's
    which are full

    You can say my system in total is a few terrabyte's

    Can you give me a livecd recommendation?

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    Quote Originally Posted by masterpj View Post
    That is what you mean?
    Sort of.
    Mountain; molehill.


    Quote Originally Posted by masterpj View Post
    Can you give me a livecd recommendation?
    BartPE
    - There is no such word as "can't" -
    - 60% of the time it works every time -

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    .... Why Is my bartPE in japanese?

    No this computer doesn't come from japan and this thing has been bought in the netherlands


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    Downloading ultimate boot cd now

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    I agree with Sir Daniel here.
    I'd never swap out a mobo and then hope it would be fine.
    New Mobo is reinstall with me.
    Everybody always complained about vista, it ran fine with me, just like XP, Win95 and now Windows 7.

    Maybe if you get stuck with the 3DS plugin installers, give me a call, maybe i can help.
    But first make sure you do a clean reinstall (will make your system much more stable!) instead of swapping out boards and "hoping Windows is intelligent and sort it out for ya", it doesn't !

    After reinstalling on a fresh disk connect the old boot disk and copy the stuff over you need. Then when everything works use that acronis you found to make you a brand spanking new image and store that on another drive and/or on another external disk.
    Now when you run into problems in the future, just load up the bootable cd you can make with acronis and place the stuff back.
    If you make such a backup every month with acronis you can always go back quickly to a working situation.

    Hiren's Boot CD is also a nice bootable cd with tools....
    Make sure you find the "good" one....
    I didn't fail !
    I just found out 10,000 ways that didn't work.

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    I actually have that boot cd

    I need a livecd though, I tried bartPE but on this laptop some files are missing.

    *gets other laptop from downstairs*

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    Bartpe/Winpe
    doesn't work on this laptop (vista)


    and other more newer laptop (windows 7)

    On building it comes up with this error:
    Cannot find: C:\Window\I386\setupldr.bin

    Can someone maybe save me alot of hassle and maybe send over an iso?

    As I have my own serial key here it shouldn't be illigal. and Is not used for distribution or sale.

    I take responsibility for my actions


    There

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    Put your old motherboard back in. Boot the system.
    Mount a network share to a laptop/NAS box/Other PC/USB HDD etc. and backup your data.
    Swap motherboard back & connect only one drive (the one you want to reinstall onto!)
    Redo 2nd step in reverse and re-chunder data back.
    - There is no such word as "can't" -
    - 60% of the time it works every time -

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