ajb62787 Posted February 28, 2007 CID Share Posted February 28, 2007 My friend is wondering .. if he buys a new motherboard and a AM2 chipset instead of the 939 he have now , will he have to reformat his hard drive ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 28, 2007 CID Share Posted February 28, 2007 most likely yes - when ur changing out ur motherboard/cpu its best you really reformat everything to avoid any possible issues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junerian Posted February 28, 2007 CID Share Posted February 28, 2007 Yeah I stuck an old hard drive (well not old but it had an OS already on it) into a "new" computer before (diferant motherboard/cpu same everything else) and it gave me some weird issues till I formatted it and reinstalled XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granpa Posted March 1, 2007 CID Share Posted March 1, 2007 I have done this before and it can work but everything new has to register in the OS, new motherboard, video, sound and so on and all the new drivers. If parts were transfered from the old they are still in the OS. Either way takes time and patience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted March 1, 2007 CID Share Posted March 1, 2007 Yes it could work out ok, But the best way would to format and reinstall , the main point is has he got the Win O/S disk or has the hard drive got the O/S preinstalled , if so Microsoft may not help , and send you to the computer makers , if you contact them they wont help either as you have modified it , I would not personaly risk buying without owning the disk and licence key ,or at least factoring in the cost of buying it this is assuming he is runnig a Microsoft O/S Btw, I have taken a dozen or so hard drives from laptops (old Sony Vaio's, no disk drive ) hooked them up as a single drive "C" on a spare desktop computer , formated and reloaded the O/S and all the progs needed , put the drive back in the laptop without any major problems , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted March 1, 2007 CID Share Posted March 1, 2007 you dont have to format the harddrive you can get away with just installing the drivers for the motherboard, but i would format it just so you dont have any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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