PC Upgrade Question about Booting Up

[Spartanorfs]

Hi,

 

I am planning to upgrade the motherboard, cpu cooler, psu and case of my computer. I am keeping everything else from before (the gpu, 2 drives and ram). My operating system is already installed on my ssd and my hdd has various files that I wanna keep. If I assemble the computer with the new components and plug in the ssd and hdd into the new motherboard, will the computer successfully boot up from the ssd which has my old operating system? If not, what do I have to do to make it boot up from my old drive and avoid having to reinstall everything?

 

thanks

[zlolslavez]

It would be safest to do a clean install of operating system on the new build, but if it's not possible just remove all drivers and hope for the best. (of replaced parts)

[C0LL0SS0S]

Highly recommend to use 1 HDD as a backup, and do a clean install on that SSD

[TechSam]

i would recomend to re-install your os and just backup evrything else on the hdd as the ssd might have conflicting drivers and make the computer not work so well trust me i tried didnt end so well.

[techguru]

yep....reinstall

when you upgrade your board...its pretty much a requirement

[Beltboy]

If you do this it should boot, it will depend on what version of windows is running, if your using EUFI (this prob won't boot), SATA configuration.

 

However as many above have recommended a clean install is always best when replacing this much hardware. You can un-install drivers and hope for the best but this will not be clean. Some drivers change windows settings to "optimise" your system for that hardware, un-installing won't set it back to default.