Do You Need To Reformat Your Hdd When Instaling A

[Pitbul]

your changing a major peice of hardware. i advise u to re-format just to be safe. i installed a new one and re-formatted cause sometimes windows has a fit when u change to much hardware and dont re-format.

[clocker]

Why not give your eager, new board a shiny, fresh copy of Windows to play with?

It's not that much trouble, is it?

[3RA1N1AC]

Originally posted by Pitbul@17 November 2003 - 00:52
your changing a major peice of hardware. i advise u to re-format just to be safe. i installed a new one and re-formatted cause sometimes windows has a fit when u change to much hardware and dont re-format.

windows does not have a fit when you change too much hardware. you just have to learn some simple maintenance skills. it's just a computer, it's not voodoo.

[clocker]

Originally posted by 3RA1N1AC@17 November 2003 - 12:29
it's just a computer, it's not voodoo.

Oh really?

Lately my PC has been demanding blood sacrifices.

So far it's been happy with goats, but it's starting to make noises about virgins...

[Virtualbody1234]

Maybe not voodoo but it's rocket science.

Why not give your eager, new board a shiny, fresh copy of Windows to play with?

Now you're talkin'

[Nightwolf]

Originally posted by clocker@17 November 2003 - 08:51
Why not give your eager, new board a shiny, fresh copy of Windows to play with??

It'll just be messed up again in a few weeks anyway. I'm with 3RA1N1AC, just learn to deal with your problems as they come. Reformatting is overkill.

[clocker]

Nightwolf,

Out of curiousity, how many motherboards have you changed out and did you have any problems with Windows afterwords?

[kurtsl0an]

Originally posted by clocker@19 November 2003 - 03:09
Nightwolf,

Out of curiousity, how many motherboards have you changed out and did you have any problems with Windows afterwords?

shouldn't have 2 many problems after swapping a mobo as long as u have xp and a mobo driver disk -

[clocker]

Does that "shouldn't" equal " I know for a fact"?

I am curious simply because when I got my new board a few weeks ago, I was told to definately reformat/install.
That's why I'm asking how much of this advice is based on personal experience and how much is secondhand info...

[kurtsl0an]

Originally posted by clocker@19 November 2003 - 03:29
Does that "shouldn't" equal " I know for a fact"?

I am curious simply because when I got my new board a few weeks ago, I was told to definately reformat/install.
That's why I'm asking how much of this advice is based on personal experience and how much is secondhand info...

it equals "i know for a fact" -

i did have a gazillion problems after installing a new mobo on a win98 pc back in the day, but xp at least gives u a chance to reinstall the new drivers b4 u get some obtuse error and a lock up...