Help with Windows XP

[DjStyles]

Okay here is the situation. My motherboard packed up the other day, so I had it replaced with a completely different board. Now the problem is I want to be able to connect the new board in the machine without having to
re-install XP as I would loose to much data.

Is this at all possible?

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[albert123]

just plug it all in, put the old harddrive in the new box, and voila. it may install some new drivers and crap but you wont loose your data.

 

[pope24]

just plug it all in, put the old harddrive in the new box, and voila. it may install some new drivers and crap but you wont loose your data.

But expect XP to misbehave spectacularly from then on. My advice is switch the drives, backup your data and reinstall.

 

[albert123]

But expect XP to misbehave spectacularly from then on. My advice is switch the drives, backup your data and reinstall.

he didnt say he wants it to work like a dream

 

[Tux]

Good luck with doing that if the old board was AMD and the new one Intel based or vice versa. You really have an interesting time trying to get that to work

 

[albert123]

Good luck with doing that if the old board was AMD and the new one Intel based or vice versa. You really have an interesting time trying to get that to work

it will work, at least good enough for him to get his files and maby run the windows installation again as a REPAIR or even jsut reinstalling without formatting

 

[Claymore]

Boot off the XP CD. Go to install, it'll find a copy of XP on the drive, and you want to Repair it. That will do a repair install, preserving settings, but installing new drivers.

 

[bullfrog]

Do the repair thing, mentioned above. XP doesn't like it when you switch motherboards especially if it's a motherboard with a different chipset. If it's from nforce 2 to 3 or 3 to 4, then it should work fine if you just plug your harddrive in because they use the same drivers. But if it's from nforce 2 to via or something else, then there is a big chance that you'll get a blue screen when trying to start up.

You could also try going into safe mode when first booting up and installing the new drivers from there. Press F8 before windows starts and choose safe mode. If that doesn't work then put in the windows disk and do a repair!

 

[DjStyles]

Thanks guy's. Now could someone take me through the repair part, as I see a few repair options when i boot off the cd.

 

[bullfrog]

The first repair is the one that you mustn't select as this will take you to the repair console. not sure exactly how it looks anymore, but here's a guide
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI

 

[DjStyles]

The first repair is the one that you mustn't select as this will take you to the repair console. not sure exactly how it looks anymore, but here's a guide
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI

Thanks, will check it out.

 

[killadoob]

just do a repair man

best idea

pirated copy eh?
if you have orignal it would just ask you to phone to microsoft

 

[squirrel]

If you change from say Intel to AMD, it most probably will look up, because when Windows notices a certain amount (i'm not sure how much) of driver changes, it locks.

 

[bullfrog]

just do a repair man

best idea

pirated copy eh?
if you have orignal it would just ask you to phone to microsoft

No actually a friend of mine who definately has a legit copy got the blue screen when he upgraded his pc from an intel to amd 64. He just said we should do a full reinstall and partition, so we did.

I've only upgraded from a nforce 3 to 4 when my old mobo died and I'm still running the same version of windows.

To get a screen saying we should phone MS means that the OS must have started up correctly. If the system tries to boot up and it tries to load the wrong drivers Windows will be very unhappy and will give you a BSOD before it even starts loading, before the splash screen even.