Installing My Current HDD On To A New Mobo - Is It Hard?

I'm getting a new motherboard for Christmas tomorrow and at present I have 2 Hard Drives:

One 40gb HDD (C Drive)
One 4gb HDD (Recovery Drive)

As I've never installed a new mobo or a attached a HDD to one I have no idea what to do and I don't want to mess it up. I'd appreciate any help in the matter, thanks.

P.s. I really don't want to lose ANY of the data already on the HDD if that's possible.


HK

 

I wouldnt think so mate.Just a matter of pluging the thing in to the new board.

 

New MOBO's, due to different Drivers/Chipsetswill almost always will require Reinstall of Windows.
Hope you have a Windows install CD, a manufacture's restore CD probably wont work
First thing to do is back up all important data to CD/DVD or ?
Your going to need some Thermal paste to reinstall your CPU/HS

Here's a few links to rewiew, your exact install may be different but the basics are similar
http://www.motherboards.org/articles/guides/35_1.html
http://www.theeldergeek.com/replace_motherboard.htm
http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_mother.htm
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html