What are the chances of..

[mortiz]

I'm getting a new PC tomorrow, well, I'm getting the bits and pieces and I'm going to be putting it together myself. The only thing I didn't get in the Harddrive since my current HDD has quite a lot of stuff on it. What do you think the chances are of me putting my old HDD into my new computer and everything working perfectly?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

It could be fine if the connections are the same; check to see if you have IDE or SATA and if your new compy has the same connection. Other than that you may just need to install a few drivers.

 

[Asus]

Uninstall all motherboard drivers and give it a shot. Otherwise you have a high chance of blue screen. Hope the hard drive controller will work the same.

 

[giant384]

sometimes it wont boot past the windows logo when you switch motherboards,but it differs on the board.

 

[Ridge]

It wont work, because all your IRQs and MAC addresses will be different...you are better off backing up your stuff and formatting your HD...

 

[Qonfused]

I installed my new CPU, RAM and MB with the EXACT same harddrive and everything worked fine.

:l

 

[giant384]

yes but there could be driver conflictions with your old drivers.

 

[Ravioli]

i did the same and it worked perfectly! Format it first though duhh

 

[Asus]

I did this on my media PC and it worked out although the USB doesn't act quite the same.

 

[Top Secret]

All depends on the motherboard...