Hi
I am about to embark on building a new gaming machine for my son, firstly he had an issue sourcing a socket 1155 mobo board that would fit his i5 3rd gen processor as his budget would not stretch to a new processor too after spending £260 on a decent graphics card.
My son is a musician that is his world and thus has a lot of music programs on his old machine
I understand that taking a system image back up would not work on his new machine as drivers and setting would not be compatible with new mobo board yes?
So would taking a backing of just his programs folder as well as you usual personal files work on his new machine once restored and in particular his important programs that he has built up.
He has Win 8.1 at the moment and was waiting to get the new machine before upgrading to win 10
SHould this upgrade be done just before on his old machine to get the key code/ID as the new machine would not get the free upgrade were as he would on his old machine and can then install win 10 again using the new key code/ID
Does that sound right?
Regards
I am about to embark on building a new gaming machine for my son, firstly he had an issue sourcing a socket 1155 mobo board that would fit his i5 3rd gen processor as his budget would not stretch to a new processor too after spending £260 on a decent graphics card.
My son is a musician that is his world and thus has a lot of music programs on his old machine
I understand that taking a system image back up would not work on his new machine as drivers and setting would not be compatible with new mobo board yes?
So would taking a backing of just his programs folder as well as you usual personal files work on his new machine once restored and in particular his important programs that he has built up.
He has Win 8.1 at the moment and was waiting to get the new machine before upgrading to win 10
SHould this upgrade be done just before on his old machine to get the key code/ID as the new machine would not get the free upgrade were as he would on his old machine and can then install win 10 again using the new key code/ID
Does that sound right?
Regards