New motherboard w/old Hard drive?

I have another thread titled Kt7 pro video turns off"
but this would apply to all.
Gave up on M.B. and tried a new one. It works fine. However!!!!!
How do you get the old Hard Drive with windows already installed to work properly with the a new Mother Board?
I know most would say reinstall windows from scratch, but this is not my computer and I don't have another Hard Drive etc etc.
I know people do do this by going into safe mode and deleting everything in the Divice Manager but how do you delete the Hard Disk Controllers. I remember someone said to delete the Num something in the registry?
Any input would be nice. cause for some reason windows won't recognize my Cd. so I can't install the controllers for the new motherboard.
Old M.B. KT7 Pro 2  
New M.B. KT2

i have never had that work successfully with a system for more than 3 months.  You can go into safe mode and uninstall every device driver you see, that might work.  But don't expect a perfectly stable system.  
My advice is to just re-install.  I know you don't want to, but I would rather do it right the first time, then have to deal with it a couple of weeks later when something goes wrong.  
The best success I had with moving a 98se installation to a new mobo was a KT133a based board to a KT333 based board.  It lasted for about 2.5 months before it finally crapped out, and most of the hardware is pretty much the same if not identical.
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