Question about swapping a hard drive with an OS on it

Marmotta · 30 Jun 2006 at 05:16

I'm going to be upgrading my PC shortly, but will keep my current hard drive. If I take it out my old system and just place it in a new one, will it boot without any problems or not?

Thanks

hp7909 · 30 Jun 2006 at 07:06

There's a slim-chance it will boot. But, its highly recommended to do a fresh install of OS to run-smoothly, avoid any issues, etc

Recommend you use a program like Acronis True Image to back-up entire partition/drive. From that you can recover any files, e-mails, etc & even some program settings (e.g. bookmarks, etc) :cool:

Marmotta · 30 Jun 2006 at 09:40

OK, thanks. I'll look into that.

|Ric| · 30 Jun 2006 at 15:43

If it is a radical change then it will blue screen when you try and load up windows. Or it may still work without any problems.
If you get the blue screen you can just boot from the xp cd and select install and then repair the current install (it essentially installs windows over the top) and you dont lose any settings.

crashuk · 30 Jun 2006 at 16:13

why not use fast? on xp to save settings and files