Chipset prob....AMD to Pentium 4

[johnocar]

I am trying to move a hard drive from a AMD board to a pentium 4 board without formatting a hard drive,Is there a way this can be done without the usual conflicts(chipsets etc)???

[Faustus]

Assuming your using a MS operating system I wish you the best of luck with it. Such a major change almost always needs a reinstall of the OS.

[pixel]

If it is moving your OS drive to a different motherboard, it will need a format and a reinstall of your OS.

If it is just a storage drive, the move should be easy without any formatting.

[johnocar]

yeah I think a full Back-up and format is the only answer!....thanks guys

[parsonsj]

I have done it in the past. I would go into my Computer - Properties where you see all of the hardware and delete everything and do an immediate shutdown change the MoBo and have your windows disk and drivers etc. ready when you boot it will go through the found new hardware until it gets everything configured. I've only done it on machines that I didn't have the immediate Capabilities to reinstall everything that was on the machine. if it doesn't work then bite the bullet and Reinstall from scratch.

The main problem is it loads a new set of driver for the new hardware and keeps some of the old stuff too when you just change the MoBo.