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EinfachMarceel
Junior Member

05-19-2026, 11:25 PM

I have an Asus Z790 motherboard, an Intel Core i9-14900K CPU, an NVIDIA RTX 4090 card, and 64 GB of RAM running DDR5 at 7200 MHz. I also have two large hard drives that are set up for a RAID0 system with 5th Gen storage. My goal is to buy an Asus Z890 Hero Maximus motherboard and Intel Core i9-285 CPU so I can keep my existing setup working without uninstalling Windows 11 Pro or reinstalling the operating system.

EinfachMarceel

05-19-2026, 11:25 PM #1

Stupsi_dupsi
Member

05-20-2026, 02:22 AM

Your system runs on two 4TB drives in RAID 0, making a single drive of about 7452GB running Windows 11 Pro. You want to swap the motherboard and CPU from Z790 or a 14th gen Intel processor to an AMD Z890 board with a 28nm chip while trying to just plug it in and make your old setup work? Yeah, that won't happen. That is very unlikely to actually succeed.

Stupsi_dupsi

05-20-2026, 02:22 AM #2

Linda
Member

149

05-20-2026, 03:19 AM

Can I just make a backup copy of my hard drive's data onto an external USB stick? Would that be okay to do?

Linda

05-20-2026, 03:19 AM #3

Can I just make a backup copy of my hard drive's data onto an external USB stick? Would that be okay to do?

Athame_
Senior Member

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05-20-2026, 10:56 AM

No. You need a totally new operating system installed. Back up any files that aren't part of the OS first, then restore them when you finish installing everything else.

Athame_

05-20-2026, 10:56 AM #4

No. You need a totally new operating system installed. Back up any files that aren't part of the OS first, then restore them when you finish installing everything else.

Lukepvp27
Member

05-20-2026, 05:07 PM

But I need to know why we are using RAID 0, and which drive supplies power for this setup.

Lukepvp27

05-20-2026, 05:07 PM #5

But I need to know why we are using RAID 0, and which drive supplies power for this setup.