Wowww you can change mobo without reformatting on windows 7!!

[martin_metal_88]

Don't want to break the fun but this feature is from Vista actually...and win 7 use it back since it's mosly the same OS. There is still few time that it fail but they are pretty rare. Most of the time it work great.

[enaberif]

For the most part it could be done in XP too. Win7 just polished it.

[FlyingFish]

Once I upgraded from a Penitum D to a Phenom II.


Windows "worked" but it was far from perfect. Reformatting helped.

[grinder]

reformatting is completely unnecessary in win 7... unless you notice the obvious errata (hangs, crashing, blue screens, artifacting).

Like boggtrotter said; refresh the major device drivers and you're good to go.

[Jake_HT]

What's the point of reformatting if it works fine?

Driver swap no big deal!

[boggtrotter59]

Originally Posted by Jake_HT

What's the point of reformatting if it works fine?

Driver swap no big deal!

It may not be necessary for things to work... But there's nothing like that clean "fresh out of the shower" feeling that a new install brings... just think of all the useless crud you are eliminating in the process. Call me old school, but I just love the feeling of doing a fresh clean install... machine is usually way faster and responsive.

[CTA]

well.. i think i dont format the system after swap from stupid p5q to p45 ud3p... everything seems fine... just uninstall old hardware drivers and update some correct hardware drivers ...

[bojangles]

I always do a reformat. Just in case there's something that's not right and can't find it. Solves every issue. It's nice to see that it's getting better but I wouldn't consider it flawless yet!

[encorp]

Originally Posted by Perineum

reformatting is for wussies. ;)

No it's not. Considering when I format the only thing I lose is my OS and every thing else is still in tact upon reinstall :P

[Perineum]

I guess it depends on how it's done.

I'm sure we all know an "expert" that every troubleshooting resolution STARTS with a format and reinstall....

I never wipe and reinstall. It takes me 3x longer but I solve it in place. I do repair installs though. There was one system that I couldn't figure out, it was day 3 or 4 and finally I gave up. I copied his profile and all his data and at the end of the process he would never have known it was done.

Anyway, in problems / viruses / malware it's all pretty well documented. They don't do something secretly. Malware and viruses usually have a few steps to get active in the system. If you take one of those steps away the virus is still there but inactive.....