plan to upgrade mobo,cpu,mem running XPpro

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I plan to upgrade my motherboard, processor, and memory. I want to continue
running the XP I have installed now. Can someone tell me what I need to
research in order to accomplish this as seemlessly as possible? Thanks.
 
Okay...here's a bit of a twist to this problem. My
motherboard went bad, so I had to replace it. It was a
Gigabyte GA-7VRXP (Rev. 1), and it's being replaced by a
PC Chips M848ALU (Rev 2.1). Obviously, Windows XP Pro
won't boot now. When I try to do the repair as instructed
in the article below it does not give me the Repair
Option. I get the repair using the recovery console on
the first screen, but after the license page I only get
the create/delete/select partition to use. It shows the
partition that currently has windows installed, but it
doesn't show the windows directory (as I'm lead to believe
it should), and it doesn't give me the repair option.

How can I get around this? I really don't want to have to
reinstall all the programs I had on there. Why isn't the
setup giving me the repair option? If I really can't
repair it through the setup, is there a way I can identify
what drivers my new motherboard needs, and then install
those drivers through the recovery console?

If there is no way and I am truly screwed, how can I go
about creating a network boot disk that can access my NTFS
file system so I can copy data I want to keep from the
hard drive to a network share?

Thanks in advance for your help and assistance. I've been
battling this for days now and I'm really frustrated.

-Charlie
 
Charlie said:
Okay...here's a bit of a twist to this problem. My
motherboard went bad, so I had to replace it. It was a
Gigabyte GA-7VRXP (Rev. 1), and it's being replaced by a
PC Chips M848ALU (Rev 2.1). Obviously, Windows XP Pro
won't boot now. When I try to do the repair as instructed
in the article below it does not give me the Repair
Option. I get the repair using the recovery console on
the first screen, but after the license page I only get
the create/delete/select partition to use. It shows the
partition that currently has windows installed, but it
doesn't show the windows directory (as I'm lead to believe
it should), and it doesn't give me the repair option.

How can I get around this? I really don't want to have to
reinstall all the programs I had on there. Why isn't the
setup giving me the repair option? If I really can't
repair it through the setup, is there a way I can identify
what drivers my new motherboard needs, and then install
those drivers through the recovery console?

If there is no way and I am truly screwed, how can I go
about creating a network boot disk that can access my NTFS
file system so I can copy data I want to keep from the
hard drive to a network share?

Thanks in advance for your help and assistance. I've been
battling this for days now and I'm really frustrated.

-Charlie



memory. I want to continue


me what I need to


possible? Thanks.
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Try this. Get the recovery console going. Then type bootcfg. This
should fix any boot.ini errors causing setup not to see the old o/s
install. You may want to "type boot.ini" before this just to see what
it contained before. Then try the repair install.

As far as a boot floppy, you need to copy ntldr, ntdetect.com and
boot.ini (which correctly points to the o/s) onto a formatted floppy.
There is a way to make the recovery console write to floppy by setting
some environment variables, but i don't know them off hand.
 
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