Getting new computer, OS on HDD Question.

[Stryk3r15]

I will be selling my current computer for money, but I want to keep my hard rive since it has my games, OS, so on and so forth. Now if I got a new motherboard, would I have to re-install the OS? (Win 7 OEM), and if someone bought my computer would they have problems installing a hard drive and OS? I don't want to have to get another OS, but if I have to I will, and no illegal downloading the installer.

[CwGoh]

There might be hardware conflicts if you change platforms like from LGA775 - > FM3. If it's just the motherboard swap, it will probably work, but might not be optimised. (eg. SATA drivers may be wonky, WiFi may not work perfectly well). So it will probably work, but it's recommended to re-install at some point.

[Oisin Maguire]

1) whiching hdd to a new motherboard without reinstaling the os wil have driver conflicts and windows reads a code off the bios as to not allow the transfer of an installed os to another computer.

 

put simply reinstalling is simpler and if you dont want to pay for an os go Linux based like Ubuntu, Mint of Fedora 

[Godlygamer23]

If someone bought that other computer, they'd have no issues putting an OS on it, provided they have a storage drive to put it on and a method of installing the OS. You will also have to do a re-install. I changed CPU sockets one time(went from AM3 to LGA1155) and I went to boot into Windows and it blue screened.