Trying to do a windows xp recovery with new hardware after video card died

[statik213]

My old system was a athlon 2500, radeon 9800 on a soyo kt600 board.... the vid card died and now I have a Opteron 165 on an Asus A8r-mvp (radeon xpress 200 chipset) wiht a Radeon x850.

I'm trying to perform a windows xp repair on my install of windows but the repair gets stuck half way thru. The repair tries to reinstall windows and it gets to the 4th step (installing windows) and doesn't get past the "installing devices" stage -- it says 34 mins left. The graphic on the lower right corner with the 5 squares keeps playing so the setup program hasn't exactly crashed but it's not progressing.
Is there anything i can do? I'd hate to reinstall everything.....

 

[Auric]

Not sure... have you waited way beyond what seems reasonable?

A good procedure to follow before changing the hardware like that (or otherwise moving the OS) is to change the storage controller configuration to "Standard", then the OS should boot on the new one and dynamically install devices. The repair setup then still remains an option but is not critical.

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: Auric
Not sure... have you waited way beyond what seems reasonable?

A good procedure to follow before changing the hardware like that (or otherwise moving the OS) is to change the storage controller configuration to "Standard", then the OS should boot on the new one and dynamically install devices. The repair setup then still remains an option but is not critical.

Yeah i've given it like 2-3 hrs and no progress....
I'm guessing changing the storage controller configuration is done on while running windows right? Well like i said my graphics card died out on me and I don't have another agp card to plug in and boot it up into a similiar environment.

Any suggestions?

 

[Auric]

Yeah from Windows. I wonder if it can be changed when booted from the CD and prompted to hit F6 to provide a SCSI controller driver (from floppy)? Otherwise, changing the controller by loading the registry hive on another running OS (including BartPE disc) should be possible but of course would require a bit of messin' and finding out the correct registry data for Standard or whatever is the ideal for the new board). It may be easier to scrounge up an old viddy card. You could always try the setup repair again. It couldn't hurt to boot to recovery console first and run 'chkdsk c: /f /r". Perhaps there was something in the CMOS Setup you missed?

 

[Jiggz]

My recommendation is to back up your important data and try a clean install. The reason why is not only do you have a new video card (which shouldn't require a re-install) but you also have a new mobo and cpu. If you are reluctant to do a fresh install, you can try running the Recovery Console and then run chkdsk. If there is no problem then you can try a repair installation again. If the problem is still the same, I would go for a clean install.

 

[statik213]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
My recommendation is to back up your important data and try a clean install. The reason why is not only do you have a new video card (which shouldn't require a re-install) but you also have a new mobo and cpu. If you are reluctant to do a fresh install, you can try running the Recovery Console and then run chkdsk. If there is no problem then you can try a repair installation again. If the problem is still the same, I would go for a clean install.

Yeah I caved and did a fresh install... since I always keep my data and windows/apps on seperate drives i didnt lose anything by nuking the windows partition...

That windows repair has saved my skin many times.... not this time

 

[Jiggz]

Good on you. Obviously you did your assignment before you did your upgrade. There are actually three layers of assurances you can make sure an upgrade goes on smoothly without losing data. First is Sysprep, Repair Installation and a full clean installation. But the bottom line is you have to have a back up data just in case the first two doesn't work.