Old drivers in new build

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Voulker

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So the story is my GPU fried a few weeks ago and I decided to do an entirely new build that will be finished tomorrow. My question is since I'm reusing my old hard drive and only my hard drive will my drivers interfere with eachother enough to not let me get in and delete the old drivers?

TL;DR: Will my old drivers interfere with a new build?
 
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If you are trying to just boot off the old drive using a new motherboard, it's likely to either not boot, or if it boots it will act very strange with slowness or crashing. It may work fine though and just ask for new drivers.

Best practice is to do a clean Windows setup when swapping motherboards.
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hang-the-9

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If you are trying to just boot off the old drive using a new motherboard, it's likely to either not boot, or if it boots it will act very strange with slowness or crashing. It may work fine though and just ask for new drivers.

Best practice is to do a clean Windows setup when swapping motherboards.
 
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As hang mentioned, you can sometimes switch a windows install without issues other than activation, but its always recommended to do a fresh install, which you will probably need a purchase a windows license.

But simply reusing your drives, yeah, you should not a single problem, you will see them with in windows, and if you don't, you have to go to Disk Management to see the drives, but you shouldn't have to.
 
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