I ordering a new HD and a new CPU for my board. Everything matches up but im just wondering if I should clean install windows on the new HD instead of just putting the cpu in and firing the computer up like that
you don't have to reinstall unless you change your motherboard, or if you want Windows on a new hard drive
you got a new hard drive, but you can still use the old hard drive to run Windows from. and you can install the new hard drive and use that for extra storage.
install the drive, boot to Windows, go to start -> run -> "diskmgmt.msc"
format the new drive to NTFS
Partition Magic will do the job fine or even the trial version of BootIT NG (which i found more useful than the full version of Partition Magic last time i cloned a disk)