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New motherboard, old hard drive, problems..

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by maclochs

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I have a new motherboard that as an AMD64 3200 processor and I had to add a nVidia video card. My previous motherboard was a Pentium 4 with an onboard VGA. When I attempt to connect the old hard drive to the new motherboard I can load in safe mode but I get a stop message when I do a normal windows XP SP2 load. I installed the nVidia software in safe mode but still no luck. Any ideas about how I should proceed from here? It'd be appreciated.

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by symon.l

does the bios pickup the fact the HD is even installed, and are there any other HDD's installed?
Have you made sure if this is a secondary HDD that its not set as master, and is infact set to be a slave.

by maclochs

The bios picks up both my hard drives and they are designated as master and slave properly. It lists them in their proper order. I have a disk that came with my motherboard but when I try in install it in safe mode it tells me it can't load the kernel. It lists

by maclochs

Yes, I'm trying to boot from the old hard drive. My old motherboard went bad and I just moved my hard drives to the new motherboard.

by langlier

unfortunately because of the driver differences between the old motherboard and the new you will not likely get this copy of windows to work regularly. You can attempt a repair install of windows but likely you will have to backup, wipe, and start over.

by downrighttired

Youre not going to be able to boot from that one. If you have another clean HD, or a HD that you can wipe. You could Install windows on the clean hd, then copy over. Alternately if you have a flash drive or another pc connected via LAN you could boot from a live linux cd and use that to copy over the files you wanna keep. Sucks, has happened to me....

by maclochs

I just went with backup, wipe, and reinstall. Now my computer constantly restarts itself, it tells me that windows did not start successfully. When I choose start windows normally or even safe mode, it begins to load and then just restarts itself.

by langlier

happens sometimes. make sure you full format the drive first (possibly security wipe if you can). and try again. if there are still issues you might need to do a full hardware diag.

by downrighttired

did you reinstall windows back on the same drive? If you happened to use a diff HD check the jumpers. You may even need to check them if its the same HD, different MOBOS may behave diff when jumpers are set to CS. You also may want to check and make sure the cable from your HD is plugged in the right spot on your new MOBO, some may require a certain slot for your primary drive(SATA1 or IDE1 somethin like that). Either check the manual or see if labeling on the board gives any indication. If all that checks out then id agree with langlier...

by langlier

happens sometimes. make sure you full format the drive first (possibly security wipe if you can). and try again. if there are still issues you might need to do a full hardware diag.

by maclochs

Actually, it was rather simple. I used the wrong installation disk. I used the windows XP that came with my emachine instead of my full standalone version. It's all good now. Thanks for the advice.

by mikensmith

i had success with MOVEME. I downloaded from the website. Installed on new machine (with fresh install of WINXP Pro), and installed on old machine. Networked both and told MOVEME which programs, data, etc to migrate to new machine. It correctly put transferred programs into registry, desktop, etc. for about 99% accuracy. If you can slave the old harddrive to another machine, and can network both, I believe this is a solution.

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