Changing mobo advice needed quick!

[Nocky24]

I'm thinking of changing my current mobo, cpu, memory setup with the 4.00Ghz oc'ed i7 bundle on here, but i just need to know what i need to do with my hard drive.

At the moment it has an oem version of vista 64bit premium installed and was thinking of installing the windows 7 64bit beta over it and then installing the new mobo, cpu, memory.

Would this work? and would i have to install windows 7 before the bundle install or after and then boot windows 7 from a dvd?

Any help will be much appreciated, thanks

 

[Nocky24]

it should work , just make sure you set it to boot from it in bios on new board then boot from dvd and do a repair if won't boot from hard drive , guess it won't as there has been a hardware change ....
But if i was you i would make a backup first just incase , if won't boot or repair then you can do a clean install
karl

Yeh i was thinking a clean install. Would i be able to install Windows 7 over vista before the hardware changes and just not activate the operating system? Not sure how the windows 7 install works as i'm a bit new to it. All i know is if its oem it binds itself to your motherboard.

 

[Nocky24]

Double posts FAIL

Anymore help please

 

[Nocky24]

Thanks for your replies, much appreciated Will the Gigabyte UD5 board work on windows 7 RC 64bit though? And do i have to use the vista drivers it comes with on the dvd or will the windows 7 os have its own drivers built in for it?

Thanks