Thread: Shifting of hard drive from one place to another

I want to shift my hard drive to a new motherboard which is having the operating system already installed on it.
Simple question - do I require to clear it with the clean and reinstall? If yes/no or even what probable problem am I facing?

Thanks

You just require re-installing; formatting is a good option for shifting the hard drive to a motherboard.

Why is the reinstall the whole thing that is, what occurs if you don’t do it?

When Windows are been installed on a computer, it then provides particulars itself to the hardware which is involved = HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Windows then adapts itself to the hardware which you are having in your computer. When you go to switch it over to a new computer, then it will most probably will have a dissimilar hardware and the installation will not identify it. The kernel commands also may not work and pass through it, parting you with a bunch of blue screens prior you even get into Windows.

That’s pretty much what I have idea though someplace in the back I consider that it may be with all the proceed in plug n pray and what is not cleaning out all the hardware devices before the move to be taken also allowing for more generic drivers to load or some similar thing and windows would also merely reinstall the new drivers for the new system. Fresh install of windows will never hurt anyone while migrating to XP as an alternative of using W2k this time makes me wonder that how excited is the authentication process is going to get presently I’m reusing a copy of XP even its not at present installed on any other system - I did activate it on this computer at one time then removed it and reinstalled 2000.

Now below the Windows 95/98 you used to be able to delete the hardwareenum registry key, which will clean out the driver information out. Then you can also move the hard drive around. More or less it's a way for keeping people from cleaning the drives on unlike computers and it's really being built to execute on your hardware which is kind of cool. Just by the means you will just have to pay for extra notice to the hardware you're receiving in your computer.