Re-using HD with XP and new mobo ??

I know this is a dumb question but ...
I have a 2-yr old ATX mobo running XP and a Athlaon 1500+ cpu. Instead of incrementally upgrading the system, I think I will buy a new
mobo and start fresh. My question is ... can I connect up my previous HD and run WIN XP with it? Can I get this to work without having to
wipre clean the HD and starting with a fresh install of XP? I have a bunch of apps and files on the HD I'd liek to hang onto.
Thanks,
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I don't question that the "safest" option is to do a clean install. But sometimes the prospect of installing ALL of your applications and patches again can be so daunting that you really can't face it. (It usually takes me *days* to get this done and I still end up losing apps for which I've lost the key, or can't find the key.)
But I would say in 90%+ of cases you can do an "upgrade" of XP to your new components. And why not? XP is designed to detect new components and to automatically install the drivers for them. So what stops this from working? Its nearly always the disk controller and driver. What often happens is that you power up your new hardware with your old XP config and it can't load the things it needs because the old disk driver won't work the new controller properly. You end up with a hanging system and have to do a repair or a complete new install.
To avoid this, simply make sure you change the disk controller (in Device Manager) to Standard Dual Channel Disk Controller (or whatever its called. You know the one.) Do this *before* you unplug the old hardware and plug the new stuff in.
Then boot up as normal and 90% of the time (or more) Windows will "upgrade" itself to the new hardware config. You will usually have to do a few reboots to get there, but get there you will.
What you can then do is go into Device Manager again, show hidden devices and look for anything with an ! exclamation mark against it. Delete all of those entries. Perhaps on reboot you may be asked for yet more drivers for some of the things you deleted. But maybe not. Sometimes they are just old entries for devices you don't have any more.
And that's all there is to it. You will most likely end up with a perfectly stable, perfectly performing new system with all your applications and all your patches still in place.
Just one comment: Single processor to Dual processor doesn't work too well. I don't know why, but it seems the only way to get the full speed advantages of moving to dual processor is to do a clean install. Shame.
Chip

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