Do you remove graphic card when reformatting?

[nutstae]

Dear Community,

Do you have to remove the graphic card and reformat with stock hardware?

I got an SSD and I planned to do a reformat with my factory reset CD,
I am a little confused as to what the steps would be.

Thank you

 

[utroz]

Hard to see what you are doing without a graphics card to see the display so keep it in.. If you have a cpu with a built in GPU you can try it with the dedicated card in first and if it doesn't work try just using the Igpu on the cpu but 99+% of the time you should be able to use your dedicated card to reinstall your system.

 

[cst1992]

No, you wouldn't need the card to be out of its system; as utroz said, there'd be a problem for CPU's without an integrated GPU(AMD FX series).

With cloning software you shouldn't even need to reinstall your system.

I used this software to clone:
https://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/

 

[nutstae]

Hard to see what you are doing without a graphics card to see the display so keep it in.. If you have a cpu with a built in GPU you can try it with the dedicated card in first and if it doesn't work try just using the Igpu on the cpu but 99+% of the time you should be able to use your dedicated card to reinstall your system.

No, I am saying, I have GTX650 Boost Ti, which isn't stock Graphic Card.
I was going to reformat my pc before installing SSD because I wanted to start fresh (my pc is kinda messed up right now too)

so If I were to reformat, can I leave my Geforce GTX650 on? or do I have to remove it and then go back to stock graphic card that's attached to CPU and then reinstall it after?

 

[nutstae]

No, you wouldn't need the card to be out of its system; as utroz said, there'd be a problem for CPU's without an integrated GPU(AMD FX series).

With cloning software you shouldn't even need to reinstall your system.

I used this software to clone:
https://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/

Hard to see what you are doing without a graphics card to see the display so keep it in.. If you have a cpu with a built in GPU you can try it with the dedicated card in first and if it doesn't work try just using the Igpu on the cpu but 99+% of the time you should be able to use your dedicated card to reinstall your system.

No, I am saying, I have GTX650 Boost Ti, which isn't stock Graphic Card.
I was going to reformat my pc before installing SSD because I wanted to start fresh (my pc is kinda messed up right now too)

so If I were to reformat, can I leave my Geforce GTX650 on? or do I have to remove it and then go back to stock graphic card that's attached to CPU and then reinstall it after?

 

[bystander]

No, you don't. And what they are saying is if that was a requirement, there would be millions of people who couldn't reformat drives, as they don't have integrated GPU's on all systems.

 

[utroz]

You should be just fine with your new graphics card in the system when you reload/reformat your system..