Yerowan 1,006 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 TLDR: Wasn't the video card, turned out to be the mobo. Second harddrive great in theory, awful in practice. Much bitching to follow. Long version. New computer. New harddrive. Old harddrive set up as secondary to new main drive. Shop neglected to tell me that while everything would still be on the second drive, none of it would transfer to the basic OS, so... bookmarks, links, programs, all THERE... but not accessible. I specifically mentioned I was concerned that my entire itunes library would be lost or inaccessible or have to be manually updated file by file or some shit to go to the new path, and they were able to point that over for me, but didn't think of asking if oh hey maybe I play games or have other programs that might be affected. Can't get into my gmail account on this new tower (have it on my phone or I literally would not be able to do anything because I wouldn't be able to get PW reset emails for everything). Cookies are great until you don't remember your PWs ever because the last time you had to actually type that thing in was a year and a half ago. I just had to re download the battlenet launcher and could redirect that to find the games on the old drive (will edit with heavy profanity if launching those doesn't actually work because OOPS on the wrong drive). Still have to get Steam up and running. Guess I should be grateful I could afford to replace the system right away, but I'm just cranky that I have to redo nearly everything (all my bookmarks! *internally screaming*). When my harddrive died a few months ago, another guy at the same shop was able to shift all my data over to a new harddrive and reinstall it and it was PERFECT. This time it took like four people and it's just... ugh. On the plus side, I have a better CPU, more RAM, and more harddrive space. And she runs really quietly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imsomessedup 32 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 can you still boot from the old hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowpoke X 1,319 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 You could set up the system to automatically make a back up system image on another internal or external hard drive, but it has to be a separate drive, not the drive where operating system is installed. In that way everything is saved, and can be restored on another computer lately. If you have time and money to repair a failed computer twice, you can probably buy some cheap extra drive and spare an hour to set up everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yerowan 1,006 Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 can you still boot from the old hard drive They told me if I kept the old drive, it would have to be secondary to the new drive and it would boot off of the new one. I think they could have transferred everything over to a new drive and then reinstalled from there, which is what the guy did last time, but they didn't have a formatted drive that big sitting around, and it would have taken much longer. You could set up the system to automatically make a back up system image on another internal or external hard drive, but it has to be a separate drive, not the drive where operating system is installed. In that way everything is saved, and can be restored on another computer lately. If you have time and money to repair a failed computer twice, you can probably buy some cheap extra drive and spare an hour to set up everything. I have an external hard drive, but the backup attempts kept failing. Reformatting the drive and trying again might work, but I don't know what it will do with two separate drives to backup. I'd be pretty excited if I had the knowledge and skill (and tools) to fix these things myself, but I don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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