New Motherboard and Win 2000 ....

[Zak]

Hi,

I'm planning on upgrading my motherboard and CPU from the ancient 233mhz mainboard I have now. I'm running Windows 200 Pro as my OS and just wondering if it will give me any problems after upgrading??

For some reason Windows 2000 refuses to boot if I install the hard drive in a different computer from which the OS was installed.

[jmichna]

You can pretty much expect major hassles with such a drastic upgrade, considering the harwdare generation where you are coming from, to the current hardware. You may experience all kinds of hardware/driver/registry-related issues. Peformance may be deleteriously affected. You would be best off saving your important data, and doing a re-partition, re-format, and doing a clean install of your OS and applications.

If you had a W9x OS, you might have a chance (would take a pruning of a registry branch), but the NT/W2K/XP OS'es are more tightly integrated with the hardware.

I think you would get better performance with a clean install anyway.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Yup backu important stuff to a slave drive or partition and then get ready to format and reinstall

--Jakk:t

[BipolarBill]

Formatting is not necessary. Boot from the CDROM and choose Install. You will have to reinstall programs, but your data will be saved.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Installing over an install can be done true, i did that once though and it all got a lil messy :(, thats wahy i prefer the format route :D

--Jakk:t

[Zak]

Thanks for the info,,,

Either way, I think I'll backup all my important files just to be on the safe side.

Zak.......

[BahamutFFL]

yeah, just burn a few cds with your files and do a fresh install on your new box.