Help Me Please My New Mother Board with not work on my XP Hard Drive

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David said:
Please Some 0ne Help me. I have XP one my hard drive and I am upgrading my
Mother Board. But because I had XP on another Mother board the New Mother
board wont work
The people at the store said I have to delete every thing on my hard drive
and start over
I cant do that I got alot of programs on it over 25 gig. or they said buy a
New hard drive
Help me I Need my XP Hard Drive on my New motherboard How can I do this
Please resond fast every body
Thank You David
(e-mail address removed)
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My bet is you are getting a blue STOP screen. In order to get it working
again, you need to install XP on top of XP. You don't normally lose anything
by doing that. Then, your networking may be missing if your XP disk is pre
SP1 and you have SP1 on it now. If that is the case, do yourself a favour
and have SP1 update ready. Most of the time it is all you need to fix it. If
that doesn't fix it, go to the URL below and follow these details. It fixes
it every time.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;329441
 
Please Some 0ne Help me. I have XP one my hard drive and I am upgrading my
Mother Board. But because I had XP on another Mother board the New Mother
board wont work
The people at the store said I have to delete every thing on my hard drive
and start over
I cant do that I got alot of programs on it over 25 gig. or they said buy a
New hard drive
Help me I Need my XP Hard Drive on my New motherboard How can I do this
Please resond fast every body
Thank You David
(e-mail address removed)
 
-----Original Message-----
Please Some 0ne Help me. I have XP one my hard drive and I am upgrading my
Mother Board. But because I had XP on another Mother board the New Mother
board wont work
The people at the store said I have to delete every thing on my hard drive
and start over
I cant do that I got alot of programs on it over 25 gig. or they said buy a
New hard drive
Help me I Need my XP Hard Drive on my New motherboard How can I do this
Please resond fast every body
Thank You David
(e-mail address removed)


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The chip sets need to be the same manufacturer on your
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old and your new mb,else you reload.
 
Do a repair install; you won't loose your data or settings.

Start the operating system from the CD-ROM (you may have to set your BIOS to
have the CD drive as the first boot device)

When the computer starts from the CD, the system checks your hardware

and then prompts you to select one of the following options:

To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER.

To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.

To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.


Press ENTER.


Press F8 to accept the Licensing Agreement.

A box lists your current Windows XP installation, and then the system

prompts you to select one of the following options:

To repair the selected Windows XP installation, press R.

To continue installing a fresh copy of Windows XP without repairing, press
ESC.

Press R to start the automatic repair process. After repairing Windows XP,

you will need re-download all updates,starting with SP1.
 
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