System Failure - Move HD to new rig?

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Not sure if this should be here or the MB forum, but is related to both.

I have jsut had to give my current motherborad its last rites - it is very sad as we have had some good times...

My question is, can I move my old HD to a new motherboard? I can remember having problems with this before.

The good news is that I have Acronis true image installed so everything is backed up.

Here are a couple of ideas that I had but not sure if any will work:

Create a new partition on the HD and install a new OS there. I think this should install all the nessicary drivers etc into the boot loader?? Then I can delete the partition and boot into the old one.

Load the old OS up using something like Live CD then delete all the old drivers so I am left with generic ones.

Anybody got any other good ideas?

Thanks.
 
Connect the old HDD to the new mobo and try to boot the system. See what happens. It may BSOD repeatedly and refuse to boot. You might get lucky and be able to boot into the system and load the new mobo drivers.

Personally I'd do a full backup, format the HDD and clean install.
 
fluff said:
Connect the old HDD to the new mobo and try to boot the system. See what happens. It may BSOD repeatedly and refuse to boot. You might get lucky and be able to boot into the system and load the new mobo drivers.

Personally I'd do a full backup, format the HDD and clean install.
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Ok Thanks.

Will running repair from the windows CD help?
 
If it's a like for like motherboard you'll have no problems.

If it's a different chip-set you may run into problems and the possibility of windows activation is you are using an OEM licence. In which case you may to buy a new copy and/or reinstall/repair windows from scratch. Personally, I'd use the opportunity to run a full format on the disk.
 
The windows installed on the HDD will likely go haywire with all the wrong drivers for the new hardware. It's generally not advised, but worth a try I guess.
 
MooMoo444 said:
The windows installed on the HDD will likely go haywire with all the wrong drivers for the new hardware. It's generally not advised, but worth a try I guess.
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Ok but at some stage the drive must have managed without them? Like when windows was installed for the first time. Is there a set of generic windows drivers that I can get back to and then install the new drivers for the new MB?
 
I do this a lot.

XP will only work if you have a very similar chipset on the new motherboard (compared to the old one), and then it's fussy. I got away with 965 > p35, and nforce 4 754 > nforce 4 939 (but not 939>754?)

7 will just detect the new hardware and install the correct drivers (windows 7 <3 - so good for when you want to rescue somebodies machine)

again, it's messy, but does work.
 
m3csl2004 said:
I do this a lot.

XP will only work if you have a very similar chipset on the new motherboard (compared to the old one), and then it's fussy. I got away with 965 > p35, and nforce 4 754 > nforce 4 939 (but not 939>754?)

7 will just detect the new hardware and install the correct drivers (windows 7 <3 - so good for when you want to rescue somebodies machine)

again, it's messy, but does work.
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Thats great I have win 7 installed! So I will just fire it up and it will work...
 
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