Re: Can't Boot WinXP

Kent_Diego wrote:

> I reciently changed my motherboard and had to do repair install as
> would be expected. After, I could not boot into WinXP, would just
> re-boot. Standard
> PATA with no RAID or anything special. Safe Mode and Command Prompt
> only re-booted too. The new motherboard then died where it would just
> have continous long beeps so sent back RMA. I re-installled old
> motherboard and same thing. Did repair install and no good. Spinrite
> 6.0 had error with BIOS not matching drive and would not run. Tried
> Repair Console fixmbr and chkdsk /r several times. Norton Disk Doctor
> can see all my data just fine but did not seem to fix trouble. I think
> Partition Magic made worse with "fix" as lost a little bit of
> unpartitioned space that used to be there. Now Disk Doctor reported
> "Bad Geometry" error, but I can still see all my data! (250 MB Maxtor)
> So I just got new 320GB Western Digital and Ghosted to new HD without
> any errors. The motherboards BIOS seems to see HD info corrrectly.
> Still no boot. Disk Doctor says no errors. Spinrite still cannot run
> due to
> BIOS info not matching HD. Tried fixmbr and chkdsk /r and no boot.
> Running chkdsk seems to take hours with either HD.
> I am sure a re-format and clean install will work but do not want
> to
> lose all the applications and games I have installed over many years.
> What next?
>
> TIA,
> Kent

Hi, Kent. As for the applications, you will have to reinstall them.
There is no way of getting around that. You can save the data,
including game data. Here's an easy way:

Boot with Knoppix, a Linux distro on a live cd. You will need a computer
with two cd drives, one of which is a cd/dvd-rw. To get Knoppix, you
need a computer with a fast Internet connection and third-party burning
software. Download the Knoppix .iso from www.knoppix.net and create
your bootable cd. Then boot with it and it will be able to see the
Windows files. Use the K3b burning program to burn the files to
cd/dvd-r's.

Otherwise, you can take the hard drive and slave it in a working machine
and copy the data off that way.

I think you should test your RAM if you are using the same RAM in the
new m/b as you used in the defective board. Check out your power supply
also. You don't want anything shorting out.

Malke
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