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New Mother Board Installation
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You will have to reformat your hard drive (different chipsets etc.) for it to work with the new board.
I just thought I would remind you of what you posted. You don't have to, The CPU type and memory doesnt matter, the reason it won't work at boot is due there being no drivers installed for the drive controler and chipset, a repair of the windows install resets the drivers for the 2 mentioned devices and everything else and hey presto it all works. just like a fresh install.
Yes there are remnants of the old drivers but they are totally inactive and if you need the 200k that they take up then you need to buy a new hard drive. Never upgrade windows but a repair is perfectly fine as long as that is what you do and not do a 2nd install to another folder or install again to the same folder.0 -
When I changed my Mo-Bo I plugged the hard drive in as it was and it booted up right away, I just had to install the new drivers, so you don't necessarily have to reformat you HD. I bought a new HDD in the end anyway as mine was 'only 125GB' now I have 0.6TB but the only windoze is still there for all the applications I keep forgetting to install on the new HDD.Nothing to see here, move along.0
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I accept that you don't HAVE to reformat, but I stand by the advice to reformat.
This question is usually posed form another angle. e.g I have a new pc, can i take the hard drive out of my old one, put it in the new pc and all will work as before.
I will continue to say no, and to advise a reformat (I still consider it the best course of action in this case too).0 -
quote "You will have to reformat your hard drive (different chipsets etc.) for it to work with the new board" quote.
it may be a good idea to reformatt and reinstall the OS, but it aint essential.
but there again, it may be a good idea to formatt/reinstall os every 12 months or so.
a backup of any data, really IS essential before any work/changes on the pc.Get some gorm.0 -
a backup of any data, really IS essential before any work/changes on the pc.
And also highly recommended to back up regularly and frequently anyway. You can't predict hard disc failures etc."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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