hihila Posted February 20 Share #1 Posted February 20 Hi, I have DSM5.2-5644 update5 on old my ASUS AMD E350M1-I motherboard dead today, cannot turn on. I can't find same motherboard to replace, so can I build a new intel or amd hardware then put back my six hard drives and boot XPEnoboot usb without lost my data? Any suggestion? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rojoone2 Posted February 21 Share #2 Posted February 21 You can build a new system with an intel CPU, but unless you have the old 5.2.xxx PAT file, you may have to upgrade to a newer DSM version. If your motherboard just died and there was no issue with your disks, all your data should be in tact when you migrate. Is there a reason why you are still using DSM 5.2 and not upgrading to 6.x or 7? Here are some guides for you to look at: https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/61634-dsm-7x-loaders-and-platforms/#comment-281190 This is to select your platform/motherboard combination https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/62221-tutorial-installmigrate-to-dsm-7x-with-tinycore-redpill-tcrp-loader/ This is if you want to migrate to DSM 7.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihila Posted February 21 Author Share #3 Posted February 21 1 hour ago, rojoone2 said: You can build a new system with an intel CPU, but unless you have the old 5.2.xxx PAT file, you may have to upgrade to a newer DSM version. If your motherboard just died and there was no issue with your disks, all your data should be in tact when you migrate. Is there a reason why you are still using DSM 5.2 and not upgrading to 6.x or 7? Here are some guides for you to look at: https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/61634-dsm-7x-loaders-and-platforms/#comment-281190 This is to select your platform/motherboard combination https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/62221-tutorial-installmigrate-to-dsm-7x-with-tinycore-redpill-tcrp-loader/ This is if you want to migrate to DSM 7.x Thank you for reply and guides. I didn't upgrade cuz don't want to lose any data or cause any trouble to upgrade newer version unless it got trouble. I will buy some used Intel 4th gen cpu and MB to build new one. If I put back old boot usb and 6x 6TB drives back, it won't work? If new hardware build, can I just install new DSM 7.1 with new usb loader TCRP 0.8, or I need to go back dsm5.2 first then upgrade to dsm 6 then 7? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rojoone2 Posted February 25 Share #4 Posted February 25 I have never upgraded from DSM 5, but I can confirm that DSM 6 to 7 is simple and you do not lose any data because the data is on a seperate partition than the system files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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