Quick question about getting new desktop

[OmegaShadow]

i plan on buying a new desktop and i'm going to order everything new except a hard drive. i plan on removing my current hard drive from my current computer and popping it into the new rig.

my question is: if i pop my current hard drive into my new computer, will my computer be good to go without doing any windows installer since i already have windows xp on my current hard drive? i won't have to do any installers or any setting up for my new computer right?


PS: my computer will be built by the computer store so they are building it with everything except for the hard drive. i want to just put my current hard drive into the new desktop and have it good to go.

 

[BrightCandle]

Windows doesn't like the core of the computer changing within it. Depending on how big the change of hardware is you might want to plan for a complete reinstall, because its quite likely you'll end up there if it doesn't work.

 

[OmegaShadow]

it's a pretty big change. my current desktop is 5 years old. so i guess i might as well order a hard drive with the new computer and just sell my current comp as it is.

 

[denis280]

so i guess i might as well order a hard drive with the new computer and just sell my current comp as it is.

YEs Thats a good decision.

 

[tami]

Yes, you will probably bluescreen if you just pop in a different hard drive and boot up. Think about it this way: will the drivers really be the same from one machine to the other? You'd have the wrong ones being loaded... and frankly, it'd be a mess to use. A clean reinstall (on a regular basis, IMO) is a good thing to do.

 

[OmegaShadow]

Yes, you will probably bluescreen if you just pop in a different hard drive and boot up. Think about it this way: will the drivers really be the same from one machine to the other? You'd have the wrong ones being loaded... and frankly, it'd be a mess to use. A clean reinstall (on a regular basis, IMO) is a good thing to do.

i actually forgot about the drivers. thanks for pointing that out. definitely getting everything new on my new desktop now. thanks guy.