Moving HDD's to a new motherboard

FliGi7 said:

The instructions below guide you through how to swap the hard drives to a new motherboard.

Windows 7 Installation - Transfer to a New Computer

Ahh that is pretty handy, I guess Windows Seven is an improvement after all.

Very much so.

I hate to be a bother, but would the secondary drive with games and whatnot just be plug and play? I'd hate to have to back all of that up

Not a bother, yes totally plug and play. Only caveat is that some games might not play if you have to reinstall the OS from scratch. Just make sure your drive letters are as they were before. Otherwise you will have issues with the pointers/references.

Gotcha, I assume they'd all work using the process that's in that link

Turns out I didn't need a new mobo at all, the gpu I got works fine. Sorry to disappoint, everyone!

On such a similar mobo, Win7 may start up on its own with just a few driver swaps. It may also hold activation or reactivate on its own. If not do the phone activation as suggested emphasizing that you replaced with same mobo.

However if it won't start due to convergence of driver/SID/HID issues at animation screen the only remedies besides Clean Reinstall are to SysPrep to move HD to another computer, boot Paragon Adaptive Restore CD to adjust old HD to new hardware, or reimage using Acronis with Universal Restore (2010+).