Swapping HDD?

[Dan3345]

If I moved my old HDD into a new computer should I uninstall the mobo drivers and bios from the HDD before hand? It is coming out of a current build and going into a new one where everything will be the same except for the mobo and RAM.

[hoofhearted4]

yea, i would.

 

just delete everything pertaining to the drivers of your old mobo and install the new drivers after. i think you should even be able to install the drivers of your new mobo on the HDD even while on your old PC, that way the HDD will be ready to go when you install it.

 

not sure if you NEED to do this, but it cant hurt to bypass any potential issues by doing this

[Dan3345]

hoofhearted thanks for the reply. I am very busy ATM and having second thoughts on this.. I have been told that unless I completely remove windows 7 from the HDD and then reinstall it on new computer with old HDD installed that things will go wrong and I will have major problems if I can even get it past the initial splash screen. Problem is I bought the HDD with windows 7 64 bit pre installed and thus have no physical copy of the OS. If I made a repair disk would that work? Install old HDD to new mobo and then pop in repair disk and let it boot from the disk? I am making a disk backup on my external drive.

 

What should I do guys?

[hoofhearted4]

i dont see why you would have issues with that. moving an HDD to a new PC with Win7 on it....unless laptops are different, ive done it....i had HDDs from other laptops and swapped them around. never had an issue.