Using old HDD in CPU/RAM/MB bundle

[nicksource]

I'm upgrading a couple of Office PCs,

Thinking of:

• Intel C2D 2180
• Geil 2gb DDR2
• Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35

Comes to around £160 per a machine.

I'm wondering if I use the current HDDs, will they work okay? What will happen to Windows?

I'm just wanting the easiest and best value upgrade of performance, so hoping this is a good combo. I'm really not wanting to redo the HDD and Windows, urgh, never again.

 

[crazyDAJT]

The hard drives will as motherboards still come with IDE slots, although SATA is much better.

as for windows, it may kick up a fuss about it, but the drives a probably filled with junk anyway.

think of it as an opportunity to do a full format and re-install it will help a bucket load and its hardly that hard.

EDIT: what you have now anyway?

 

[Cupra]

sometimes u can get away with running driver clean to delete all old drivers othertimes u will bsod all the time

 

[Munkeh]

The DS3L only comes with a single IDE slot so if your HDD and optical drives are on IDE then you might have problems, and yes you will more than likely have to re-install windows as all the drivers will have changed!