dupont wrote:

I have done this before, years ago, and I seem to remember that the best
strategy to use when installing the drives on the new mother board is to
initially boot into safe mode and then let the system discover the new
hardware. The system then worked OK.

I have also done it before and had a failure.

You've got backup/spare drives galore(!) so just power up the new board
on the bench with one of them and see what happens. At worse you'll have
to recreate it.

If this works and you keep your XP in a tidy state (ie there hasn't been
too much crap installed over the years) then it's preferable to a
re-install as it always takes weeks to get everything back as one likes
it. And there's always some setting or tweak that gets lost in the move.

Scott