Motherboard Replacement?

[sup2jzgte]

What is the best way to change your motherboard and processor, and use your old hard drives without reformatting them. I know that I have to get the drivers and the BIOS for the motherboard, but can I take one of my old hard drives from my PC now which has my windows files on it and make it work?

 

[Geoff]

It depends. Sometimes you'll get lucky and it will still work, and other times it won't. I've replaces motherboards and CPU's quite often, and every time there were always problems when I was trying to load the OS.

 

[sup2jzgte]

It depends. Sometimes you'll get lucky and it will still work, and other times it won't. I've replaces motherboards and CPU's quite often, and every time there were always problems when I was trying to load the OS.

Is there a way I can copy my Windows files off of my C: that I'am using now to a 7gig spare drive I have and boot it that way?

 

[Iluvpenguins]

Well
What you can try is getting a mobo with the same chipset,thats what i did from my asrock 939NF4G-Sata2 to my Asus A8N-VM,they had the same chipset,so i just switched over and it worked fine,other then that,you have to format the drive and reinstall windows.And i don't believe you can copy over windows files.

 

[Diamondsleeper]

With the last few systems I've had or upgraded to I've tried but it never has worked to just swap the hard drives over to the new system. The new M.B. does not like whats on the hard drives and turns the screen blue with all the chicken scratch on it.