fattycow55

so I imagined, well, thanks anyways.

Well all the components are fine, a capacitor within the psu over heated and is trash, living out of the us, I can't find a replacement for the psu anywhere (it isn't a standard psu, its very thin, the ones found in the HP Slimline) and have ordered one to be shipped, but until then I need access to my data.

Okay so in this case if I wanted to use and existing hard drive on a new mother board then my best bet is to clone the drive format it then do a fresh install? if so, any programs recommended to do so? and what if the original mother board crashed? am i obligated to just simple format the drive and lose all data (without taking it to the data recovery shop)? What I am trying to achieve is to boot up a hard drive from a not working computer on a functioning computer to recover some data.

Okay, so after watching quite a lot of Linus' videos I decided to come over to his site and get some answers, forgive my lack of knowledge. In some of his recent videos when he's building a 4 machine work station and some cooling system I noticed that when he's building a rig with a Xeon processor and 16 GB RAM, that not being the point, he starts up the system after a video cut and appears to be in an already existing OS!!? I tried building a machine with an existing hard drive and it didn't boot and after investigating a little, apparently you cannot achieve this without formatting the drive (unless cloning the system onto an external drive and then later copying it on after installing the OS for the first time); the reason being that the motherboard is somehow tied down to the hard drive. If anyone knows a way of getting and already OS installed hard drive onto another (not necessarily new) motherboard without formatting or cloning it, please tell me. Thanks If anyone cares, the components I used were: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Mother Board 8 GB of DDR3 RIP JAWS RAM Some AMD Processor I think 3.10 GHz some GPU I don't care to mention 1 TB SATA 3 Seagate Hard Drive

Just like @MeltingPoint said, I am a first timer Anyways I really like the cards and have never owned anything other than the standard HP crap cards and would like to win such awesomeness; though, when i think about it, im pretty sure wont be able to use it anyways since my PC runs on 220 W. Still worth a chance.