Harddrive wont work on new mobo

Check the chipset drivers, AMD and Intel are probably different. You could also create a bootlog file to see where it freezes...

Try going into safemode and uninstalling all chipset drivers from device manager.... or reinstall XP.

It's not unusual for a hard drive to work in one system and not another. Remember, when you first installed Windows, among other things, you installed chipset drivers from a disk that came with the motherboard and Windows installed drivers based on the hardware it found.

Moving the drive to another type of motherboard left left all those drivers in place. And moving from an Intel machine to an AMD didn't help.

And more bad news. If you try to reinstall Windows from your old HP disk - if you have one, it may not work. The disk may look for an HP motherboard and when it doesn't find one, it may abort the installation.

The best way to start from scratch with a new motherboard is to restore the factory defaults in the BIOS.

Im unable to get into safemode as well : ( I can however get into Hp Recovery Console and access CMD, ive ran check disk, Fix master boot, and fix boot. Check disk found errors but said it fixed all of them. the MBR was missing files but it told me it fixed them as well.




Yea, i was kind of afraid that i couldn't reinstall the OS, but luckily i have a copy or two of xp and 7 around so if worse comes to worse ill just use one of those. It would be nice to keep all the info though.

Thanks for the reply's, its greatly appreciated!

If you simply reinstall Windows without formatting the drive, your data should still be there.