Question about hardrives annd mother bords......

[unrealnils]

Hey guys im doing up the old pc where the bottle neck is the chipset/mother board.


So i bought a new mother board and chip and am ready to replace the old ones and fix the pc so my brother can play HL2 :D

My question is will the hardrive work connected to the new motherboard or do i need to format it first :thinking:

With all the other parts like pci/agp/dvd rom and so on i can just swop them to the new mother board but my mate said i need to format the hardrive first is he right ??

Cheers :wave:

[pjclark1]

when you first turn it on have the windozeXP cd in the PC, it usually works first time if it finds the drivers straight off.

[ohood]

Yep, a format will probably be needed, definately advisable. :)

[hardtofin]

it'll probably work, but i'd format it mate, i always do. Windows isnt best known for its reliability with things like that.

[James45]

nah just have the XP cd in the drive and run the Repair utility. I did this recently after putting together a new mobo, CPU and RAM. Obviously didn't work first of, but Repair sorted it all out, solid as a rock now.