questions on formatting hard drives for part upgrade

hey guys im about to order some parts to upgrade my comp and amongst those parts will be a new mobo so i know i will be required to format my drives. my question though is do i need to format every drive?

i have two separate hard drives. one drive is drive E: which is one entire drive and the other is partitioned into drive C: for windows and drive D: for games. i was wondering if i could copy over the contents of drive D: and some files such as music to the drive with drive E: so that i dont lose any data. when i copy it over i wouldnt have the E: drive with now moved contents plugged to the mobo. then after formatting drive C: i would reinstall windows on it and then after all is well and runs i would hook up the second hard drive with all my moved data and then place it back on C:.

would that work so i dont lose all my data? sorry for the longgggg explanation but that is really the only way i can explain it lol

in case anyone was wondering these are the parts i will be upgrading to:

-EVGA 8800GT SSC edition 512mb

-OCZ 700W PSU

-Corsair dominator 2gb of 1066mhz RAM (2x1gb)

-Asus P5E X38 Intel mobo

-Intel Q6600 Quad core 2.4ghz CPU (going to OC to 3.0-3.2Ghz)

-Zalman 9500 CPU fan

thanks to all that respond :)

hey guys im about to order some parts to upgrade my comp and amongst those parts will be a new mobo so i know i will be required to format my drives. my question though is do i need to format every drive?

i have two separate hard drives. one drive is drive E: which is one entire drive and the other is partitioned into drive C: for windows and drive D: for games. i was wondering if i could copy over the contents of drive D: and some files such as music to the drive with drive E: so that i dont lose any data. when i copy it over i wouldnt have the E: drive with now moved contents plugged to the mobo. then after formatting drive C: i would reinstall windows on it and then after all is well and runs i would hook up the second hard drive with all my moved data and then place it back on C:.

would that work so i dont lose all my data? sorry for the longgggg explanation but that is really the only way i can explain it lol

in case anyone was wondering these are the parts i will be upgrading to:

-EVGA 8800GT SSC edition 512mb

-OCZ 700W PSU

-Corsair dominator 2gb of 1066mhz RAM (2x1gb)

-Asus P5E X38 Intel mobo

-Intel Q6600 Quad core 2.4ghz CPU (going to OC to 3.0-3.2Ghz)

-Zalman 9500 CPU fan

thanks to all that respond :)

poopshanks

eh i duno its quicker and hassle free to just copy over all the contents you know. that way i can get everything i want instead of accidently forgetting something.

but back to my directions i listed above i need to know if that would work fine?

Its best to burn what you want to save to dvd or copy it to an external hard drive or another internal HD. Everytime you do major upgrades and at least once a year on any existing system i always think you should reformat and reinstall windows as it gets bloated and runs like crap after awile.