Changing Motherboards

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Recently my motherboard failed and I was forced to get a
new one. I transferred the new board in and hooked up
several components to get it started. After booting, it
doesn't recognize any ide devices, and also asks for a
boot disk. I would like to keep all the data on the hard
drive and use it as the main drive, I don't have any
spares. Is there a way to setup this new motherboard
without reinstalling anything?

Thanks for the help
David
 
Recently my motherboard failed and I was forced to get a
new one. I transferred the new board in and hooked up
several components to get it started. After booting, it
doesn't recognize any ide devices, and also asks for a
boot disk. I would like to keep all the data on the hard
drive and use it as the main drive, I don't have any
spares. Is there a way to setup this new motherboard
without reinstalling anything?

Thanks for the help
David
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If your bios (startup screen) doesn't recognize your hard drive then
perhaps you don't have it installed properly - check cables - jumpers
- etc.

IF your new Mobo is the same make and model it is possible to transfer
the system. If not then you are much better of with a clean install.

To get the data off of it , slave the drive to someone else's computer
and copy any files you don't want to loose.

249694 - How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q249694&ID=KB;EN-US;Q249694
 
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