New EPoX system: Can't boot into win?! help!

Akerman

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Nov 8, 2001
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Just put together my new system, amd 1600 and crucial ram on an an epox 8hka+ mobo.

I connected my two harddisks that I had saved from the old computer - the boot-hd contains WinXP + old drivers for the old system, and the other contains a whole lotta important stuff.

So when I try to boot, I get past the bios-checking, and then when it begins to load win (right after DMI Pool) a blue screen comes up saying that "in order to protect my computer, windows will be shutting down now, try to remove any newly installed harddrives and try again". - This also happens in safe mode.
When I try booting with my other HD, I get the message "NTLDR is missing", which probably is because this hd is formatted with NTFS.

So, I need to know how I get into one of my harddisks, so that I can move my data from the XP-disk to the other disk, and format the XP disk for use with my new system.

But how? The only thing I can think of is buying a new hd as a middle-station between the two, or formatting my XP-disk, which I wouldn't like to do before I have saved my data.

I have tried booting from my Win2000 cd-rom, but it still says "NTLDR is missing".

Please help!:(
 

MasterHoss

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Apr 25, 2001
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I'm not sure but you might be experiencing data corruption on your HD.

Also, I'm sure Bill Gates will make you call him. With WinXP, if you change that many components, you're going to have to call the Evil Empire.

*evil laugh* ;)