New Motherboard/ original hard drive

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Hi List,

I recently purchased a new motherboard and parts with the exception of the
hard drives, I just moved over the existing hard drives but it will not boot
from it. It just keeps recycling, I can get into the F8 area but each safe
boot type fails so I can't load the chipset software that came with the
mother board.

I did reload XP into a different directory named C:\WIN and all is running
fine. I created a dual boot menu to the original C:\windows and would like
to try and fix the original boot.. Because I have access to the registry in
C:\windows I was hoping to fix this boot by making the registry identify the
correct ide controller boot information that currently works from the C:\WIN
boot.

My question: Is there one place in the registry that references the ide
controller boot drivers and configuration. I was hoping to find this section
and import it into the C:\Windows registry?

Am I on the wrong track?

Thanks in advance.

Tom
 
Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Windows - Shell/User
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| Hi List,
|
| I recently purchased a new motherboard and parts with the exception of the
| hard drives, I just moved over the existing hard drives but it will not boot
| from it. It just keeps recycling, I can get into the F8 area but each safe
| boot type fails so I can't load the chipset software that came with the
| mother board.
|
| I did reload XP into a different directory named C:\WIN and all is running
| fine. I created a dual boot menu to the original C:\windows and would like
| to try and fix the original boot.. Because I have access to the registry in
| C:\windows I was hoping to fix this boot by making the registry identify the
| correct ide controller boot information that currently works from the C:\WIN
| boot.
|
| My question: Is there one place in the registry that references the ide
| controller boot drivers and configuration. I was hoping to find this section
| and import it into the C:\Windows registry?
|
| Am I on the wrong track?
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Tom
 
Tom said:
Hi List,

I recently purchased a new motherboard and parts with the exception of
the hard drives, I just moved over the existing hard drives but it
will not boot from it. It just keeps recycling, I can get into the F8
area but each safe boot type fails so I can't load the chipset
software that came with the mother board.

I did reload XP into a different directory named C:\WIN and all is
running fine. I created a dual boot menu to the original C:\windows
and would like to try and fix the original boot.. Because I have
access to the registry in C:\windows I was hoping to fix this boot by
making the registry identify the correct ide controller boot
information that currently works from the C:\WIN boot.

My question: Is there one place in the registry that references the
ide controller boot drivers and configuration. I was hoping to find
this section and import it into the C:\Windows registry?
Click to expand...

You should simply have done a Repair Install. Here is a link explaining
that:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

Malke
 
Tom said:
Hi List,

I recently purchased a new motherboard and parts with the exception of the
hard drives, I just moved over the existing hard drives but it will not boot
from it. It just keeps recycling, I can get into the F8 area but each safe
boot type fails so I can't load the chipset software that came with the
mother board.

I did reload XP into a different directory named C:\WIN and all is running
fine. I created a dual boot menu to the original C:\windows and would like
to try and fix the original boot.. Because I have access to the registry in
C:\windows I was hoping to fix this boot by making the registry identify the
correct ide controller boot information that currently works from the C:\WIN
boot.

My question: Is there one place in the registry that references the ide
controller boot drivers and configuration. I was hoping to find this section
and import it into the C:\Windows registry?

Am I on the wrong track?

Thanks in advance.

Tom
Click to expand...

As far as I know, you'll have to do a repair install as others have stated.

In the good old days (NT4), you could simply copy the new disk
controller driver over top of the old one and the system would boot.
Even extreme hardware changes, like moving an IDE-based install to a
SCSI RAID controller, would work. It doesn't work starting with W2K.

Perhaps there's a way to trick XP into using the new driver (short of
repair install), but I haven't come across the recipe if so - despite
considerable googling and experimentation.

Sunny
 
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