New asrock z77 install with old hdd and CPU help.

[Katburd4]

I am trying to install a new asrock z77 motherboard into my old set up. I'm going to use the same hard drives and CPU. I also want to upgrade from windows xp 32bit to windows 7 64 bit. I have a sata to USB adapter so that I can plug my hdd into the computer and remove files but I'm not sure if there's a way to wipe the whole thig afterward so that I can start from scratch. Do I even need to, or is there another way?

 

[computer_nugget2]

what is you old cpu?

and yes there is a way to wipe your old hard drive. you can use the disk management program built into windows to wipe the hard drive clean. just plug in the drive and check to see if its detected in disk management and delete the partition and format. or you can get a copy of a OS called Parted Magic (its free) and that comes with loads of programs that will let you add or remove partitions in your hard drives and format them.

 

[Katburd4]

It's an intel i5 sandy bridge 2500. Thank you. Ya I reformatted my hard drives and I went to put my computer together only to discover my gpu doesn't fit into my case with this motherboard. Very unfortunate.

what is you old cpu?

and yes there is a way to wipe your old hard drive. you can use the disk management program built into windows to wipe the hard drive clean. just plug in the drive and check to see if its detected in disk management and delete the partition and format. or you can get a copy of a OS called Parted Magic (its free) and that comes with loads of programs that will let you add or remove partitions in your hard drives and format them.

 

[computer_nugget2]

damn that sucks bro. but the computer is running fine though right?