Hardware upgrade. Can't access HDD

[schrade]

I upgraded my motherboard and CPU about an hour ago. Now, I can't access my hard drive. "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer." I want to say that it's a BIOS problem and I can't update the bios to see the HDD. I don't have access to a floppy drive until tomorrow though to get the BIOS from Biostar.

I tried to go into safe mode but it brings me to the error message everytime. Then I thought that I could go into the BIOS and turn on the CD drive to boot first and use the Drivers and Utilitis CD. That didn't work either, maybe the DVD burner isn't being seen.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[tiap]

You will have to get your optical drive bootable and doa repair install of windows.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

You will need to reinstall Windows if you replaced the motherboard.

While you could put it back in your old system, wipe the IDE drivers, and switch it over, it would still make you reactivate it.

 

[schrade]

How can I though when I can't get past the blue error screen? Get the 6 disk XP boot and go from there?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Grab your Windows XP CD, put it in your CD-ROM drive. Reboot

 

[schrade]

Tried that first. I'll boot and it goes straight to "We apologize for the inconvenience, but windows. blah blah blah." I even have my CD-rom to boot first.

 

[schrade]

Is there anyway that someone could let me know if my CD/DVD drives are working? I'll turn on the computer and instantly comes up safe mode and all extensions from there lead to the blue screen.

 

[schrade]

So, am I SOL until I get the XP start up disks? I figured a reinstall would be necessary so I saved all the important stuff.

 

[Smilin]

k, when you attempt to boot to recovery console with your CDrom:

Do you make it to the point in setup where it says "welcome to setup" and gives the option to hit "r" for a repair? If it crashes before this then you have a hardware issue.

If you get that far but it crashes about the time the recovery console should appear then the system hive may be to corrupted to load. In this case you'll need to do a parallel install to get to your data (then possibly fix the original OS...more on that later).

 

[schrade]

Ok, I know I've been a pain but we're almost done. I did get it to now format the drive my XP cd does work in this laptop. Now when I start the computer up with the XP cd in it goes straight to Microsoft windows 98 startup menu. >start with cd support> preparing to start your computer, please wait. Then it goes straight to my A: I don't know where to go from here.

 

[schrade]

I formated in DOS. Then I'll try to load the setup.exe in dos with drive:\i386\winnt.exe and get a cdr101 not ready reading drive F