drali 6 Report post Posted May 26, 2006 i am using 2 Os - 98 & Xp at C & D drive. my mother board is 810E intel chipset now i m planning to change my M.B with compaq(intel) M.B.do i have to reinstall my both OS. advice me. thanx! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ani_meher 42 Report post Posted May 26, 2006 I guess yes, it is always safer to reinstall the two OSes, as the drivers of MB, onboard sound/graphics, USB etc will be reinstalled with new MB. If there is some error in installing the new drivers (and most probably there will be, given the 'reliability' of windows, machine will be in bad shape and you'll have to format it anyways. SO better to have a clean machine with new MB. My 2 cents. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adwait 0 Report post Posted May 26, 2006 I don't think you need to really reinstall coz the system will detect the new hardware and according install/ask for new drivers..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abhay 0 Report post Posted May 26, 2006 yup no need to reinstall the os but i would recommend u to do so coz the driver file and everything would be fresh then no dublicate or wrong drivers installed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cracker 0 Report post Posted May 26, 2006 i don't think so but if u r using genuine copy than i think u need to install it again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linuxguy 0 Report post Posted May 27, 2006 you need to reinstall. Windoze needs to rebuild the VXDs or something... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KumaarShah 143 Report post Posted May 27, 2006 (edited) AFAIK, you have to re-install XP at least if not Win'98. I had to do twice for my two computers. Edited May 27, 2006 by khs123 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abhay 0 Report post Posted May 27, 2006 you need to reinstall. Windoze needs to rebuild the VXDs or something... hehehe widows needs to build itself up and make if somewhat like linux and remove IE from it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linuxguy 0 Report post Posted May 27, 2006 Abhay, infact if it were Linux, say Gentoo, then it wouldn't have worked at all. Gentoo is optimized for hardware i.e. it squeezes out every bit of performance from your hardware ( uses all possible built in instructions available on your hardware ). So when you change the hardware you would need to recompile the kernel to get your system working fine again! While other distros like Fedora, SuSE have more generalized kernels, they would adapt to new hardware without any problems, unlike Windoze here Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
