Windows will not load with new motherboard

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I have installed a new motherboard and processor after my old board died.
After plugging in my old hard drive with a working copy of windows XP
installed on it, the system failed to load windows. At first I got the
"NTLDR is missing, Press control alt delete to restart" message. I then
installed a fresh copy of XP on my second hard disk and then copied NTLDR and
NTdetect from the windows disk to the first hard disk. This got past the
"NTLDR is missing" message but only just. The computer posted and went
through all the memory checks but rebooted when the first windows loading
screen should have appeared. It now always reboots at this point and will go
no further. Strangely the windows disk doesn't give me any repair options if
I boot from it other than recovery console and the FIXBOOT command has not
helped.
How can I make the first hard disk load, I can't access the "my documents"
folder on it if I load windows from the second hard disk and I can't bare to
lose all the files and photos on it.
 
Youre wasting youre time on a "repair",new boards require a clean install of
xp..Why not,install xp on 2nd hard drive,then after installation,re-connect
1st
hd,then open in IE,copy folders to cd,or 2nd hd,then re-install xp on 1st,or
format and use it as storage..
 
Andrew;
Incorrect.
A new motherboard does not require a Clean Installation.
A Repair Installation will do what is necessary.
 
Hi Andrew,

Youre wasting youre time on a "repair",new boards require a clean install of
xp..Why not,install xp on 2nd hard drive,then after installation,re-connect
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Please don't tell my computer this!!

I've done MANY updates of motherboards for myself, family and friends,
NEVER has it failed to boot to the windows XP cd, and then go past the
firste 'repair using the console', and then choose the second repair
option. This will make an inplace upgrade (which infact is a
downgrade, since it was SP2 with all updates, now it is a vanilla
SP2), all hardware will be installed anew, while software is left
untouched. Any hardware updates will need to be reinstalled.

Regards Leif.
 
How do I do a repair install, I can access the recovery console by booting
from the windows disk (don't know if that will help) but the only other
option i get is to install windows. If is chose this option it then asks me
to select the partition to install to etc, tells me that I already have
windows on the selected partition and asks if I want to install windows in
this location which will delete all files, folders, programs, security, user
accounts and possibly my documents. It does not give me the option to repair
windows which I usually can access when I have a copy of windows that works
to start with! I have already taken ownership of the first disk and copied
most of the files I need to my second disk assuming that I would have to
reformat and reinstall XP from scratch on the first. It would save me a lot
of time and effort reinstalling software and setting things up if i can
repair the first though. Please help.

Neil
 
Since you are net getting the repair "R" option after XP finds itself
already installed you will need to do a clean install. The current
installation is toast.
 
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