Can I use old hard drive(Win98) on new mobo?

[YEAHYEAHYEAH]

Seems there is always somebody here with good advice on trying to do what you "shouldn't" with hardware or software.

My wife's employer needs a new motherboard but wants to keep everything on his current hard drive. When the old hd is installed on the new mobo won't Windows have conflict problems since it's going to be a different chipset? I'm going from an older amd K6-II board to the ECS with the SIS 735 chipset and using DDR. Will I just go into device mgr and delete, delete, delete?
( We may put in a larger hd but I want the old one to be fully functional first before copying its contents. )
I feel reasonably hopeful it can be done easily enough, but hope someone with EXPERIENCE will advise if I'm off the deep end here.

Thanks in advance,
G.Lee

 

[jmorrell]

I've done the motherboard and processor switch several times on different computers. Windows will recognize the new chipset and either load the correct drivers for it or ask for the driver disk to load them. You may have to reboot several times for everything to load, but you should have no major problems.

 

[YEAHYEAHYEAH]

ok, thanks...just needed a little push...HA!

 

[xcela]

yep, it will take a very long time though.

 

[Zepper]

You should do this:
While system still in original form, run regedit. Remove all subsections under HKEY_LOCAL_Machine/enum/. Exit regedit and shutdown. Of course, you should export or back up the registry before doing the above.
. When you boot up on new mobo, all hardware will be redetected w/o leaving any gorp from previous mobo behind. This works most of the time.
.bh.