SOLVED Windows 7 hdd kept

[P4P45MURF87]

So I kept the current hdd that had windows 7 ultimate 64 on it but I replaced all My other hardware I can use all of my bios but if I try windows it fails and goes into windows system recovery fails am I going to have to reinstall windows now for the new hardware

 

[Opusbuild]

Might not be a bad idea to reinstall it anyway, all of the hardware changes might throw your current windows installation into a whirlpool of confusion! Do you have all your data backed up somewhere?

 

[P4P45MURF87]

Outside of my games most of my data is on a second hard drive so not a huge deal

 

[c627627]

Welcome to the forums. With that many hardware changes, it's always a good idea to fresh install. In particular if different motherboard chipset is being used.

If you can, go that route.

 

[Opusbuild]

Outside of my games most of my data is on a second hard drive so not a huge deal

+1 for c627627's suggestion in this case.

 

[Mandrake4565]

Either re-install windows or change your ports to IDE from ACHI

 

[P4P45MURF87]

thanks all I will try that and go from there

 

[Goshawk]

I've had weird bizarro issues when trying to preserve an existing install on new hardware... Things seem to work OK, but something just isn't right sometimes. It's usually best to do a fresh install with the latest drivers just to be on the safe side and avoids some of the more irritating/time consuming software issues later on.