Re: Windows will not load with new motherboard
- From: "Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:07:26 -0600
Neil;
After a motherboard replacement, a Repair Installation is normally required
to properly detect the new hardware:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm
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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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"Neil" <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have installed a new motherboard and processor after my old board died.
> After plugging in my old hard drive with a working copy of windows XP
> installed on it, the system failed to load windows. At first I got the
> "NTLDR is missing, Press control alt delete to restart" message. I then
> installed a fresh copy of XP on my second hard disk and then copied NTLDR
> and
> NTdetect from the windows disk to the first hard disk. This got past the
> "NTLDR is missing" message but only just. The computer posted and went
> through all the memory checks but rebooted when the first windows loading
> screen should have appeared. It now always reboots at this point and will
> go
> no further. Strangely the windows disk doesn't give me any repair options
> if
> I boot from it other than recovery console and the FIXBOOT command has not
> helped.
> How can I make the first hard disk load, I can't access the "my documents"
> folder on it if I load windows from the second hard disk and I can't bare
> to
> lose all the files and photos on it.
.
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