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I'll be upgrading the motherboard on my family's PC in a couple of days, and was wondering how I should prepare software wise. I know that it is recommend to uninstall certain drivers, and uninstall certain drivers, but my dad has a dual boot setup with windows 10 and ubuntu, so I was wondering how that would work. Btw he will be moving from an ASUS M5A78L-M, to a MSI 970 gaming, and has a discrete graphics card. Thank you.

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20 minutes ago, Heisenburger said:

I'll be upgrading the motherboard on my family's PC in a couple of days, and was wondering how I should prepare software wise. I know that it is recommend to uninstall certain drivers, and uninstall certain drivers, but my dad has a dual boot setup with windows 10 and ubuntu, so I was wondering how that would work. Btw he will be moving from an ASUS M5A78L-M, to a MSI 970 gaming, and has a discrete graphics card. Thank you.

Do a full windows backup or clone the drive to another hard drive. If you are switching out the motherboard, Windows 10 may complain that the install isn't valid since the mobo has changed... As for Ubuntu, I don't have much experience working with it, but my guess is that there's some way to back it up like windows. 

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3 hours ago, Heisenburger said:

I'll be upgrading the motherboard on my family's PC in a couple of days, and was wondering how I should prepare software wise. I know that it is recommend to uninstall certain drivers, and uninstall certain drivers, but my dad has a dual boot setup with windows 10 and ubuntu, so I was wondering how that would work. Btw he will be moving from an ASUS M5A78L-M, to a MSI 970 gaming, and has a discrete graphics card. Thank you.

honestly i have found that cloning windows is not healthy, at least in the long run. you make one mistake and you might end up in many problems, in future. my advise do it from scratch. it does not take that much time, even if it does, its still worth it.

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