Reformat Necessary?

[Dr Nick]

Please tell me that you formatted your HDD after you popped in your new mobo lol

I just read this in a post and as I am building a new comp I was interested. I am using a Seagate 120GB hard drive that is in my current system now. Is it necessary to re-format when putting a Hard Drive in a different or new computer?
Thanks

 

[procagefighter]

You shouldn't have to. I've switched out several HDs with my computers...

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

If your going from Intel to an AMD machine you might need to. But when ever i take one HDD from a old system and put it into a new what i do is uninstall the old motherboard drivers/video card drivers first then remove it then pop it into the new machine and install all drivers. But i sometimes end up to corrupt installs and other things slowly go corrupt and end up doing a reformat lol

 

[SHAWN]

Yes, your going to have to reload. Search for the answer, I am not explaining this yet again.