so frustrated

[purplehazeus]

Heyo,

if someone could ease my brain I would be grateful. I just got a new motherboard and it isn't recognizing the windows xp on my harddrive. I tried reinstalling xp on my old motherboard and then putting it on the new mobo and it didn't work. I tried booting from the installation cd disk ( i tried switching the boot up from bios it didn't work) I also tried booting from an old windows 98 floppy disk, it didn't recognize either. what could be the problem? Someone told me that because the windows was set up on another mobo with different memory, It was trying to find stuff from the memory on the old board.(which I can't switch over)

So here it is that I've completely disconnected everything reset the cmos and formatted the hard drive(still doesn't recognize the windows xp disk or boot floppy)

wah! I'm on a one way trip to bluesville. Any ideas?

 

[RebateMonger]

A hard drive with XP installed can't (generally) be moved from one motherboard to another unless the motherboards have similar chipsets. There are ways around this, varying from simple to infinitely complex, depending on the types of hard drives and controllers.

A pretty reliable way is to install the hard drive on the new motherboard, boot to the XP Install CD, and perform a "Repair Installation" of XP. This installs the necessary drivers to make XP work on the new motherboard, but you (in theory) don't lose your settings, programs, or data on the hard drive.

If you can't get the new motherboard to BOOT to the XP Install CD, that's a whole different issue, and definitely needs to be fixed before you can move to the next step.

Being able to boot to the floppy disk isn't going to get XP installed, although you may need a floppy drive to install SATA drivers if you are using a SATA hard drive.

 

[purplehazeus]

thanks for the quick reply. I formatted the hard drive so there is nothing on it. The motherboard is not booting from the xp install cd though.

 

[dunkster]

The motherboard is not booting from the xp install cd though

Access your BIOS and set Boot Device Priority to boot from the CD/DVD drive containing the Windows install CD.

Hope this helps!