Upgrading all components in pc except power supply and hard drives

[ihawken]

I am about to upgrade pretty much all the parts of my pc except my power supply and my hard drives. I was wondering if there are any dangers in maintaining the hard drives the same ( with all the files, and windows installed) or weather I should format the drives before the upgrade. Thanks in advance

 

[vapour]

doesn't matter, just get a new storage, ssd preferred, install OS, make sure the new storage is the first in booting order then plug in old HDD, clean windows files.

 

[hang-the-9]

I am about to upgrade pretty much all the parts of my pc except my power supply and my hard drives. I was wondering if there are any dangers in maintaining the hard drives the same ( with all the files, and windows installed) or weather I should format the drives before the upgrade. Thanks in advance

If you are changing motherboards, best thing to do is install Windows clean or you can have boot issues, crashing or performance issues.