Motherbaord Replacent - I didn't read this group 1st!!!

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OK - I goofed up. I didn't read this group first. I should have, but it's
too late now, the motherboard is installed, and I'm hesitant to re-install
the old one again just to back up the data.

All is not lost - I installed XP on a 2nd HD. I can access the data but
it's going to be a lot of work.

I installed the MB (Gigabyte GA 8N SLI) w/ 3.0 Ghz Pentium and 1 Gb memory.
I connected it and booted. Naturally, it wouldn't boot. I put in the XP
professional CD and tried to do a repair - that didn't work. However, I do
get to the XP splash screen before the computer reboots. There's some
kindofa blue-screen flash that goes by to quickly to read.

Is there a way to copy the files from the good XP installation over to the
old XP installation so that I can boot from it? I know if I try to copy the
Windows folder and all that's under it that Windows will complain that the
"...file is in use..."

Any help you can offer would be appreciate. Yeah, I know, RTFM first.

Lots of good advice in this forum. Too bad I didn't read it first.

If you want - you can email me (R-Kastigar {at} neiu.edu but it would
probably be better to post here (if you have a solution) because I'm probably
not the first guy to do this, and I won't be the last.

One last thing - after swapping drives, the replacement had ME on it, which
adapted just fine to the new hardware environment. Not that this helps. :(

Thanks in advance.
 
is your CD drive set as the 1st boot device? If so a repair install should
take care of you.
 
no_one said:
is your CD drive set as the 1st boot device? If so a repair install should
take care of you.
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Tried the repair - didn't work.

I tried it first - and it didn't work.

I installed XP on another drive - works fine except no data or programs!

I tried booting again and repairing the install on the now-slave, corrupted
XP. Still didn't fix the problem.

I may need to copy everything and re-install everything - and then re-active
the "new" XP. I'm not too concerned - this is a legitimate install disk, and
I'm only installing it on one computer.
 
A "repair install" is suppose to fix xp on a new board,get a grip,a new
installation of xp is the only way to go....As for the old drive with data,
set it up as slave drive,extract the data.
 
Andrew E. said:
A "repair install" is suppose to fix xp on a new board,get a grip,a new
installation of xp is the only way to go....As for the old drive with data,
set it up as slave drive,extract the data.
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<sigh> You're right. I was just looking for the easy way out. What you
suggest is just a time-consuming process. But I do have tne 'other' drive,
and I do have all the data.

The advantage is that I'll start (again!) with a clean house, not install
some of the stuff I never use or forgot that I installed. I had to do this a
short time ago anyway, when I upgraded to XP so it's not like it's a new
experience.

I think I'll start reading this group a little more regularly before I start
any more vast projects!
 
Sweet said:
<sigh> You're right. I was just looking for the easy way out. What you
suggest is just a time-consuming process. But I do have tne 'other' drive,
and I do have all the data.
Click to expand...

No, Andrew is never right. He's a troll who always posts deliberately
incorrect, and often harmful, advice.


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Andrew said:
A "repair install" is suppose to fix xp on a new board,get a grip,a new
installation of xp is the only way to go....
Click to expand...


No, that's just another of your lies. In the overwhelming majority of
such cases, a repair installation is perfectly sufficient. (For that
matter, in a significant minority of such cases, even a repair
installation isn't necessary; all one need does is install the new
motherboard drivers.)




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