Switching hard drives and motherboards

[brjames]

I'm putting a hard drive in a new motherboard. I'm using windows 2000 and I heard somewhere that I would just have to run a repair on the win2k installation to get the thing working again. I've tried this, but so far it hasn't seemed to work. Any suggestions or more specific hints would be nice. Do I use the emergency repair or the recovery console? Thanks.

 

[Shooters]

I've been in the same boat as you before and have found that a clean install, as tedious as it may be, is really the best thing to do when swapping motherboards.

 

[Buz2b]

If you haven't been able to get the system to boot to Win2K yet, about the only other recourse is to see if you can get it to boot to Safe Mode. From there it should boot into Windows and load the apropriate drivers. At least that has worked once for me in XP. You can use the recovery console IF you had set this up on your system before; otherwise not.

 

[ChrisADuffy]

You really need to format and do the clean install, it is the best way to ensure future stability.