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replaced motherboard.. windows doesnt boot. How can I not lose everything

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SNiPeRX

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replaced motherboard and windows will not load.. not sure whats going on

What can I do so I will not lose all the information on the hard drive??

Thanks
 
replaced the motherboard with the exact same one, one with the same exact chipset, or a totally different motherboard?

For it to boot it would have to have the same chipset, for it to work perfectly, it would have to the same exact mobo.
If its a different mobo, youll have to reinstlal windows and then copy your files over
 
Put the old motherboard back in and back up all your data that you need to save. Then uninstall the motherboard put the new one in and reinstall windows.
 
XP *should* be able to boot even with a underlying mobo change (amazing, but true), but apparently thats not working for you. A repair install should do the trick, as scottws mentioned.
 
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