repairing windows?

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Grant

Ok here is the lowdown, bought a new processor (p42.6),
motherboard (Asrock)and 512Mb of DDR ram all compatible.

Hooked all this up to an existing machine which is running
windows 2000, two hard disks, 1 CDRW, Geforce 4 in AGP
slot and Network card
in one PCI slot.

Seemed to work but started getting blue screen of death on
every boot asking to do a chkdsk /f.

So I started windows in safe mode and command prompt. It
takes ages(3-4 min) to get to and when i tell it to run
chkdsk on both hard disks it says it will do it on next
startup. Yet it doesn't, it just goes back to blue screen
of death on startup.

One last thing, it asks when chkdsk on one disk if it
should force a dismount. Will this damage anything at all
by forcing it?

Also is there any way to replace files that may be missing
with windows? Any help most appreciated.
 
Windows XP "looks" at the motherboard and generates a special code which it
uses for the product activation. If you change the motherbaord, the
previous activation code does not match the new one XP finds. Unpredicable
results occur (not booting, BSOD and product re-activation request). The
accepted method of fixing this is to do a XP repair re-install, on top of
the installed version. This usually clears out the product activation,
replaces motherboard drivers and allows you to re-request an activation
successfully. Just one draw back: you will need to re-install all service
packs/hotfixes/WindowsUpdates.

Y.
 
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