Transfering HD from BX board to Abit KT7A RAID

[ltdan73]

I'm currently building up anew system based on the ABit KT7A-RAID Motherboard, likely 1.2ghz Thunderbird at 266FSB. Currently I have a Celeron system with a BX board. My question...will I run into difficulties trying to transfer my current hard drive (Maxtor 15 Gb 7200 rpm) to the new system without reformatting? Currently the hard drive is recognized by the AMI bios in the "auto" setting therefore I do not have cylinder/head/etc information for the drive. Will the new motherboard be able to recognize it as well. The manual seems to suggest not but I had no problem transering an earlier hard drive from an earlier computer to my celeron system which uses a similar ami bios. Anyone now how to make this work? Thanks in advance.
Dan

 

[Plester]

in your bios you should usually have either 'auto + auto' or 'auto + LBA' or 'user'(the drive just won't show up during post) set in you standard cmos category regardless of the board it is on.

you could probably get away w/ just putting it on your KT without doing anything and all the new hardware would be found, but the safe thing to do is to go into your registry before you move your drive and delete the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum key. that is your entire hardware config. move it and go.

good luck