Keeping an old hard drive

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J98cherokee

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So I am upgrading my motherboard but keeping the same CPU and Hard drive (300 gigs). So I know if I want to keep the stuff on my harddrive Im going to have to partition it off. Right now I have one partition with my OS on it. Can I just install my new hardware and then when prompted about where I should install my OS make a seperate partition just for the OS. I guess I am just a little confused on how to go about this. (Unfortunately I dont have another way of backing up 160Gigs)
 
Download GParted and create a new partition, move all of the items you want to that new partition and then install your OS on the original partition.

You'll need to put GParted on a bootable cd and run it at bootup :)
 
Now when you say put Gparted on a bootable CD I am assuming your just telling me to burn it to a cd. The bootable part kinda threw me off hah. When you say run at bootup, do you mean after Ive installed the OS on the original partition or what? Thanks
 
Edit: I think ive got it...you mean for the program to work I have to restart my computer with the CD in the drive to even make the new partition..?
 
now when I copy all the things I want to keep to the new partition...I am assuming all of the programs still work on the new drive letter even though they were installed on the old and that it just automatically changes their directories. I am basically copying everything but the OS windows folder stuff to this new partition.
 
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