Hi,
Provided you have sufficient free space remaining on the drive, you don't
have to format. Setup will just move the old installation to a windows.old
folder where you can later retrieve your data. Programs will still need to
be reinstalled.
You may find that if the hardware is closely related, that you will not need
any reinstall. I would just try it first, before bothering to reinstall.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"pedmag2" <pedmag2@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have Vista Ultima but my Motherboard was burn from electric problem I
> going to install a new Motherboard, my hard drive and the other cards are
> OK
> they was check and tested , Is any way that I can do this and don't have
> to
> reformat the Hard Drive ?????? The new Motherboard is diferent then the
> old
> one, because I can no found the same MotherBoard, The CPU is OK and I can
> use
> for the new Motherboard
>
> Please any Help Thanks
>