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john3850

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During the last 10 years windows never let me down and always restarted when changing computers from the last system to a new one without a clean install
Anywhere from a week to a month I did or will do clean install

Changed computers

Pentium III Coppermine to a Thoroughbred 2100
Barton to a Athlon 64 3200 winchester
Opteron165x2 to a C2D E6600
C2D to a Nehalem 930
{C2D 6600 to a i5 z68 Done today}
I am trying to decide about Intel's RST SSD caching before doing a clean install.
Every time I changed CPUs and MB windows always started up.
 
Windows 7 and Vista are better about starting up after major hardware changes. You will probably still need to reactivate.

XP was a different story, especially if your hard drive controller changed from one setup to the next.
 
SimMike2 said:
Windows 7 and Vista are better about starting up after major hardware changes. You will probably still need to reactivate.

XP was a different story, especially if your hard drive controller changed from one setup to the next.
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Swapping around AHCI is prob the biggest install killer.
 
Even if you don't start with AHCI, for instance reverting to IDE emulation on your SATA devices, Windows 7 isn't too bad about switching to AHCI later. You will need to read on the Internet about how to precisely do it. If you have an SSD, AHCI gives better performance in most computers.
 
I was just saying that windows is prety good when you can go from intel to amd etc with out doing a clean install.
I read hundreds of posts stating to do a clean install for more perfomance when changing cpu,mb or even to sli or cf I always did clean install after a week but never saw any differences.
If I am going to use a ssd I do clean install to keep the size down
I was afraid of for AHCI for years till a year ago
In ide chance the drivers in windows reboot switch to AHCI.
I got 1 legal copy of win7 left from the 3pack for the reactivate
 
Going from Intel to AMD with XP gave me a blue screen until I deleted a driver (intelpm?).
IDE drivers need to be dumbed down for compatibility.
ATA to AHCI is a big issue (like Dulanic said).
 
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