Re: Moving HD to new system
- From: John Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:16:14 GMT
"philo" <philo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"DaveW" <radiation@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
WHENEVER you change the Motherboard that is being used with a
harddrive containing a previous installation of Windows, you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS.
Otherwise you will get ongoing Registry errors and data
corruption...
Not at all true
A repair install usually does the trick.
Whether reinstalling Windows is critical or not, I don't see why
anyone would/should shy away from doing a reinstallation of Windows
on a freshly formatted hard drive when they are replacing the
mainboard, especially if it is their own system.
To the original poster.
Do you have removable media copies of important files from your hard
drive? If not, you are making a boo-boo and no one here will help
you do anything constructive with your computer, until you do. If
you already have backups, good luck and have fun with your new
hardware.
Seems to me that when someone is afraid of reinstalling Windows, you
can guess that they do not have a copy of important files from their
hard drive. Windows and programs settings are a good reason to avoid
reinstalling stuff, but the lack of removable media copies of
important data is a possible bad reason. Like maybe they don't know
how to locate, copy, and then reapply important personal/program
data to a new installation.
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