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xp/hard drive won't boot
Name: doug Date: August 31, 2003 at 21:51:38 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: amd xp1600/256MB DDR 2700
Comment:
After I put a new motherboard in my pc, it won't boot up w/the old hard drive. I put another drive in and it works. With the old drive, it starts to go through the motions, and then it goes to the screen asking if I want to go into the various safe modes or start windows normally. Regardless of which way I try, a blue screen flashes for an instant with writing on it, but it disappears before I can make any of it out. Any help would be appreciated!
Name: Hooner Date: August 31, 2003 at 22:05:36 Pacific
Reply:
Go into your BIOS, and set CDROM as 1st boot device, put your Xp cd in the drive and reboot.
Once at the setup screen, make like you were doing a fresh install and when you see the "Select partition to install Xp on" message, select the drive/partition Xp is ALREADY on and click OK. You will then see a message along the lines of "Xp already detected on this partition, would you like to repair?" yes, you would!
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Response Number 2
Name: doug Date: September 1, 2003 at 07:31:18 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, once you get to the repair menu, then what? I had actually tried that, but didn't know what to do once I got there.
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