Someone told me that I will have to reformate since I will be replaceing the old one. Is this true and will I be able to get my pictures off my computer before I have to reformate and how do I go about doing this?
Thanks
2006-09-22 06:57:43 · 11 answers · asked by Bethie_Dawn 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
To me the pictures are important and I asked several times that my guy friend burn them for me and he never would do it. I guess I need to learn to do it myself.
The new motherboard is different than the old one. I am also not sure why the motherboard went out but I hope the hard drive is fine.
How can you tell if the hard drive is ok?
2006-09-22 07:18:40 · update #1
sorry.......I think you're out of luck. I had the same thing happen to me. Now I upload all my important pics to my email address and save them in a file called "my pics" so I'll never lose them.
2006-09-22 07:01:40 · answer #1 · answered by happyendingsonly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your chip-set drivers will be messed up but it should boot. You got a disk with the board, load everything on it and you should be OK. If you can't get it going, take it to a shop and see if they can get your data back if it is really important. If the drive isn't completely dead they usually will be able too. Even if it is, it is expensive but there are places that tear the drive apart and get the disk out and they can almost always get at least some of it -- but this is expensive (around $1500-2000)
As long as whatever fried your motherboard didn't get the hard drive too (like lightning might) you should be able to get it going without formatting it.
In the future, please backup the photos. The wost service call I was on this woman had 6GB of photos over 6 years with a new baby. She had this virus from hell that not only deleted the drive, but overwrote it several times. I have some pretty good data recovery software and couldn't get a single thing back. It was sad. Burn them on a CD or something. Take a copy of it to your safe deposit box or give them to relatives that might want a copy to or something to get a copy out of the house in case it burns down or something. BUT HARD DRIVES FAIL and you can't only keep a copy there unless you want to lose it.
2006-09-22 07:11:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way to get information off a hard-drive (like the pictures you want) is to take the hard drive out of the problem computer and plug it into a computer that works (make sure you have two hard drives connected!) - then transfer the files to a second hard drive (a usb drive would work depending on how much data you have).
Then you can format the hard drive without loosing the data you need.
2006-09-22 07:05:25 · answer #3 · answered by nate_lalala 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As said before, your files are on your hard drive. With the new motherboard, it is unlikely the HD will boot since the hardware configuration is so different. Don't loose hope though...
Find someone who has a working computer. To make this easy to understand, we will call the working PC's hard drive HD1. Your hard drive (with the pictures on it) will be HD2. Plug HD2 into the working computer. Make sure the jumper settings are correct on both HD1 & HD2. The computer will boot from HD1 (like it did before you put HD2 into it). HD2 will show up as an extra hard drive on the persons computer. You can now click on it and browse through all of the files on HD2. Just use the computers burner to back up your files. After you finish, use your friends computer to format HD2, and then put it in your new PC (with the new motherboard). Done!
2006-09-25 03:50:49 · answer #4 · answered by mr3dphd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your hard drive stores all your information so your pictures are still there, don't worry. If you get the exact same motherboard replaced then you don't have to do anything. If you get a different motherboard then you can still copy off your pictures before you format. And finally, if you have to ask how to reformat, I suggest you leave it up to a someone else to do. The chances of you screwing it up is slim. But the chances of you getting it back the way it was is even slimmer.
2006-09-22 07:05:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
each so often a motherboard ought to stil stay as well as different hardware appropriate to the motherboard yet i wouldnt try on that motherboard anyhow; may no longer artwork completely or an electric powered fireplace ought to ruin-out and also you may then lose each little thing. the different products ought to stil artwork although. in case you gotta, GOTTA have evidence that each little thing stil ought to artwork, means on each little thing outdoors, sunny w/ no airborne dirt and dirt or sand blowing interior the direction of the workstation.
2016-11-23 15:27:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your images should be on your hard drive not on your motherboard. You should not have to reformat, as that is something you do to a drive, not a motherboard.
I do not know who your source is for your information, but I would not let them near my puter.. which I built from the motherboard out..
2006-09-22 07:09:31 · answer #7 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to get all your pics off first depending on how old the hard drive is.
2006-09-22 07:00:32 · answer #8 · answered by Joey R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i replaced my MB. i didnt loose anything since the MB doesnt store your pictures. i didnt reformat my HD. i just replaced the MB and installed the new MB information and it is working fine.
2006-09-22 07:07:36 · answer #9 · answered by East Texan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
your motherboard doesnt store your files, your hard drive does
2006-09-22 07:00:00 · answer #10 · answered by vanman8u 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋