I removed the harddrive from my hp desktop n i'm placing it in a new case with a new motherboard, cpu etc.. goin from celeron to athlon.. so anyways at what point do i insert the drivers installation cd n will i have trouble with windows xp?? i wanna access everything on my old harddrive just like i used to but faster much faster..
2006-08-17 02:39:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
To save your data from the old hard drive you need to have it installed on the old m/b. Save your data to other media.
Install the old hard drive to the new m/b and do a FRESH install of your Operating System.
Note: [You will not have any luck trying to use the old hard drive on the new M/B unless it is a slave to a new Master hd. You can then copy files from the old hd after you install the OS on the new hd.]
Then install your drivers. The OS installs drivers that will work, but your driver CD or files from chipset makers web sites do much better.
Install the drivers after you have completely installed your Operating System on the hard drive.
2006-08-17 02:44:31 · answer #1 · answered by up.tobat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As everyone else has pretty much said so far, you'll have to reformat the drive and reinstall Windows but you won't be able to use the CDs that came with your last computer, in my experience this has not worked (unless it's an unlimited license). You may have to purchase a new copy of Windows. You will have to reinstall so backup your data now. Windows will not boot on the new motherboard, believe me, I've tried swapping motherboards, it doesn't work.
2006-08-17 02:56:33 · answer #2 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do yourself a favor. Backup the data off your old HD, and reformat and reinstall windows. It's never a good idea to use the same install of windows after replacing so many hardware components.
2006-08-17 02:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by Securegeek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The community adapter is what connects you to the internet. Get a USB thumbpersistent and use yet another computer to bypass to the seller's internet internet site and get carry of the driving force to the USB. Then bypass returned to the computer with out the NIC driving force and deploy the driving force from the USB.
2016-10-02 04:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you must format your harddisk on the new mother board
and maybe its better to change Celron to 1m cache or 2m chache
2006-08-17 02:47:29 · answer #5 · answered by marsel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
clone the harddisk..
2006-08-17 03:28:28 · answer #6 · answered by Gary k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋