New cpu/mobo same hd?

korn666 · **New cpu/mobo same hd? -** 08-01-2011, 00:48 | posts: 640

I want to upgrade my PC new cpu,mobo, and ram can i keep my old harddrive without reformatting? I am against reinstalling all my programs and settings unless absolutely necessary.

killer_939 · 08-01-2011, 05:28 | posts: 2,559 | Location: Australia

Maybe, might need to run a repair of windows or something like that tho. You are always better off reformatting your windows drive.

Kingus · 08-07-2011, 21:41 | posts: 41 | Location: France

+1, you should reformatting your windows drive for restart on clean system, without problems of drivers conflicts or other.

Bye

korn666 · 08-09-2011, 08:51 | posts: 640

thanks 4 the info guys

mezball · 08-20-2011, 17:45 | posts: 286 | Location: Albany, NY

Just saw this post, and know it's a couple weeks old. Just sharing my experience. I ran into this 3 months ago, for my son's computer. He has quite a few games that I really didn't want to reinstall, and copy over saved games/settings.

He was running Win7 64bit on a Gigabyte Intel P965 chipset and E6600 cpu. Took a chance and uninstalled all drivers for video, sound, chipset, etc.

Updated the MoBo to Biostar P55 and I5 -760 cpu. Started system up, and Win7 installed basic drivers, then I installed all the updated drivers for everything else. System has been running great not one problem at all. Guess I just got lucky, but sure saved a lot of time. I really wasn't looking forward to reinstalling over 200Gb of steam games, and not including the others!