I got a new mother board w/ new cpu.

I am going to swap out the mobo and cpu for my pc.
I do not want to and will not format my Hard drive.

***Would my Windows XP Pro on the Hard drive load okay?
***If I have to run Windows XP repair...will I be able to run the software that is installed on the Hard drive? I will not lose any data correct?

***Would my Windows XP Pro on the Hard drive load okay?
***If I have to run Windows XP repair...will I be able to run the software that is installed on the Hard drive? I will not lose any data correct?

1. Most likely
2. Yes

With this kinda of question some people recomend you to format the HD and start out clean, while others don't. I myself recomened to format the HD, but I see you don't want to. The reason is, you will still have the old Drivers from the old set-up, which *can* cause problems. And other numerous reasons.

Yeah ps2wiz01 is right. A full format would be better as xp regsiters the components of your system, and if you are changing alot of them then when you boot up on your new machine then you could end up with all sorts of nasties. Often I have found that its not the freformatting thats the pain, its the reinstallation of all the software. So I bought an 80 gig hard drive to dump all important programns drivers etc onto, then keep this aside. Format whatever drive you had before hand, and get windows up and running, then stick the 2nd hard drive in later and trnasfer all the stuff that you needed across. That is assuming you have all the disks etc for the programs....