<div dir="ltr">i have documents, pictures, music, which obviosuly i would not like to lose. <div>There is no OS installed on any of the drives.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 22 November 2010 12:11, javadayaz <<a href="mailto:javadayaz@gmail.com">javadayaz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Some of you know may know my problems with my pc. Ive been told its most<br> > likely my Mobo. I am now intending to buy a new motherboard.<br> > I will install my old hard drives in this.<br> > Will i be able to install ubuntu on this without losing any info from these<br> > drives?<br> <br> </div></div>You have not said what is on the drives. If they already have ubuntu<br> on then they should just go with the new board. No need to<br> re-install. Except in the unlikely event you have 64 bit version on<br> disk and new board is 32.<br> <br> Colin<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></div><div><br></div>Regards<div><br></div><div>Javad</div></div><br> </div></div>