I just recently purchased a computer upgrade from an Athlon 2600 pro to a Athlon 64 bit processor. In the process, I had to get a new motherboard to support this great advancement. I already knew that hard drives encode themselves to match a certain motherboard. Here is the problem. I am a big modder... thanks to my friend __. Well I don't want to lose all of my mods and other stuff that is irreplacable: varies drivers, programs from lanwars, and other stuff I can't find the install programs for, ect. Is there ANY way I can transfer the hard drive to work for the new motherboard so I can keep all of my... everthing?!?! Thanks

I am assuming that you are using Windows XP. If that is the case, try booting with the drive as it is... If you get a stop error you get a stop error. If that fails, try installing the OS on your new drive with your old drive in the system (set as a slave or something) and try to copy the mod files that way. Mod files typically do not make any changes to the system registry, so give it a shot. It is mostly the registry that will give you problems (not to mention the infinite number of shared DLL files) if you just try to drag and drop entire programs.

I don't have another hard drive... I have ONE 120GB hard drive and I just want move it over to a new motherboard. Is there anyway to do that?

You can always try the iffy fix of installing Windows on top of Windows... But that often has disastrous results (programs not working, constant crashes, etc.). If I were you, I’d try to dump the data on to another drive or on to a friend’s computer install Windows, then sort through what you need.