Do I Need to Format my PC After Swapping my Motherboard?
5 minutes ago, Ryou-kun said:Hmm, do I need to mess with my two hard drive if I planned to format it?
Right now, I have a WD 1TB m.2 SSD, WD 1TB HDD and WD 2TB HDD.
My 1TB m.2 SSD contain OS, Programs & Softwares and some games that I play a lot like Rainbow Six Siege, PUBG, CS:GO, etc. My WD 1TB HDD contain junks like Chrome Download Folders, videos from Shadowplay and editing videos using Hitfilms. My WD 2TB HDD contain mostly games.
If you do decide to reinstall Windows, the only affected hard drive would be the one that contains the OS. Now that you've mentioned how much is on the boot drive, you'd have to work really hard to get any lost programs back onto it.
I think your best option is to wait and see if anything goes wrong after swapping the motherboard out, and if you're fine, then don't bother resetting. You can always check in Device Manager for problems related to devices/drivers.
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