Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?)
Hi. i have just aquired a new motherboard and CPU and put them in my
machine today. i have two hard drives, one 80gig one which had my
windows installation on before i installed the new motherboard, and a
120gig one that i was planning to install the new installation of
windows to, then i was planning to bring the data over from the 80gig
drive to the new windows installtion.
BUT...
once the motherboard and CPU were installed, and windows was installed
again, i put the old drive in and when i tried to access the drive,
windows informs me the hard drive is not formatted....er....i damn
well beg to differ! it still has the old version of windows on it!
So i tried booting to the old HDD again to see if it wud work, and it
goes into boot type choice (i.e. safe mode, normal mode) and no matter
what mode i want to boot into, once my choice is made, the pc resets
and we're back to booting again, only to reset again etc etc.
i am guessing this is all related to the new motherboard installation,
so if i were to put my old mobo and CPU in, wud the old drive boot so
i cud back everything up onto CDs? or has my data gone forever?
Please say that it hasnt all gone cos i had soooo much i NEED on it.
All help appreciated!
p.s. all versions of windows i have mentioned are XP SP2, old CPU was
Athlon XP2000+ and new one is Athlon XP2400+
cheers
==========
gremlin dude
Hi. i have just aquired a new motherboard and CPU and put them in my
machine today. i have two hard drives, one 80gig one which had my
windows installation on before i installed the new motherboard, and a
120gig one that i was planning to install the new installation of
windows to, then i was planning to bring the data over from the 80gig
drive to the new windows installtion.
BUT...
once the motherboard and CPU were installed, and windows was installed
again, i put the old drive in and when i tried to access the drive,
windows informs me the hard drive is not formatted....er....i damn
well beg to differ! it still has the old version of windows on it!
So i tried booting to the old HDD again to see if it wud work, and it
goes into boot type choice (i.e. safe mode, normal mode) and no matter
what mode i want to boot into, once my choice is made, the pc resets
and we're back to booting again, only to reset again etc etc.
i am guessing this is all related to the new motherboard installation,
so if i were to put my old mobo and CPU in, wud the old drive boot so
i cud back everything up onto CDs? or has my data gone forever?
Please say that it hasnt all gone cos i had soooo much i NEED on it.
All help appreciated!
p.s. all versions of windows i have mentioned are XP SP2, old CPU was
Athlon XP2000+ and new one is Athlon XP2400+
cheers
==========
gremlin dude
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