Hardware related software question.

[Andy1324]

Hi all,
Iv'e benn thinking of a upgrade which would include an AMD64 939 3200+ cpu, 512Mb RAM, along with a cheapish Motherboard and PSU.
So here's the question, can i continue using my current hard drive on the
new system and boot up normally, or do i need to reinstall win xp because of the hardware changes, or do something else? :?

Thanks in advance,
Andy

 

[mdd1963]

I personally prefer to delete the old partitions, repartition/rereformat and start with a clean install, although there are a lot of people that simply do the repair option (reinstall on top of old installation, which keeps programs/applications intact); but there are some things you can in the registry just prior to the shutdown with old system which prep Winblows properly for a new mb, cpu, but I'd head over to the Windows/OS system for that advice from people more knowledgeable on it...(Many people sucessfully have upgraded MB's and cpus 4 or 5 times under Win9x with these methods without having to completely reformat/reinstall, but, since the reformat/clean install only takes 20-30 minutes anyway, it's easier for most.)

Good luck!

(You can always try to boot from old install, and see if new cpu/chipset and everything is detected properly....)

 

[g-paw]

While I agree it's best to do a clean install, if your hard drive is partitioned, I'd only foramt the C dirve, i.e., the one with your OS and programs, not sure why you would want to format any other partitions storing data.

 

[Andy1324]

Thanks for the advice, this was my first post and you've been very helpful!
I think i will go for the clean install, i have i 120gb aswel as a 20gb so ill stick all my docs, pics and music onto the 20gb while i reformat the 120. To easy!
thank you