Will I be able to boot off my hard-drive?

[vbraun]

I'm upgrading the mobo, Video Card, and Power supply in my computer. I am wondering if I will still be able to boot off my current hard drive, meaning I would be able to plug all the new stuff in and then be able to boot off of my HD as if it was before the upgrade.

If not, would I be able to use a Linux live-CD to access and reformat my HD so that I can reisntall stuff?

 

[Speedo]

Are we talking about Windows or Linux?

In windows you almost always can't, because the chipset drivers for the mobo are different. In my experience it'll usually blue screen. You can boot from a 2000 or XP CD and format the drive before reinstalling.

If it's Linux I don't know, but I'm guessing that it would be unlikely to work for the same reason as above.

 

[vbraun]

Darn, I was really dreading installing everything again...

 

[vbraun]

I was able to boot off of it by having Windows repair the disk.