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Upgrading Mobo, CPU, and Videocard

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grimdeath

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Just wondering if there's any way to keep my OS's as is on my two hard drive and not have to reinstall. im currently using two hard drives, here's my setup:
80gb master drive with windows xp pro
120gb slave with ubuntu linux
(grub is my bootloader)

if not then thats ok, just wondering since ill be doing this by the end of the week. Thanks!
 
For Windows, I thought there was a way to blow away the hardware profile so that it will detect all the new hardware on reboot. No idea about linux.
 
would i just leave(for example windows) install as is...change out the parts and plug everything back in then restart and maybe it will auto-detect

linux seems to do most stuff like this on its own lol but its ok if i dont keep the linux install...more room to store my upcoming games!
 
I think it just depends. I've personally switched out a motherboard and have windows just blue screen to death. I've also seen friends switch out mother boards and it boot up just fine and install new drivers. It might just depend on the motherboard.
 
What are you upgrading from and too? I upgraded from a P4, APG setup to a A64, PCI-E and it posted but then wouldn't goto the XP load screen. I was planning on doing a format and reinstall anyway but I was just courious to see if it would boot.
 
There used to be a sticky thread on this topic over at Arstechnica, not sure if its still there but it pretty much outlined the entire process.
 
I have done many upgrades and notice that if the chipset are from the same manu, like Intel for example, it may work. I myself am on the same WinXP install for over 2 years and have changed my mobo 3 times and each time I have just put the boot drive and it booted each time, found the new crap or I put the mobo cd in and it finds what it needs. Of course I used ghost everytime because I have also changed HD like 6 times in 3 years but it is still the same Winxp install. I only use Intel chipset mobos so I think that helps. I have also fixed other peoples Winxp installed HDs from one compaq PC to another completely different model compaq and they always worked. Again, probably due to similar bios and chipsets. A couple of time I had to reactivate XP on my system because it saw too many HW changes and needed validation or some crap like that. Whatever you do, backup, backup, backup!
 
I was going to go into a huge speal about how you could do it - but the link in bob4432's sig tells exactly how to do it...

good luck!
 
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