new motherboard - repair install

[Mike Brearley]

I had to replace the motherboard on a system and was unable to get the same
board. I went in to do a repair install and it's not detecting the
installation (when I pass by the R for recovery console and press enter at
that point instead). It does detect the windows installation in the
recovery console. Is there anything I can do force the system to re-detect
the hardware? When I attempt to boot into XP now choosing any of the
options (even safe mode) I get a bsod and it reboots

Thanks..

 

[Galen]

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I had to replace the motherboard on a system and was unable to get
the same board. I went in to do a repair install and it's not
detecting the installation (when I pass by the R for recovery console
and press enter at that point instead). It does detect the windows
installation in the recovery console. Is there anything I can do
force the system to re-detect the hardware? When I attempt to boot
into XP now choosing any of the options (even safe mode) I get a bsod
and it reboots
Thanks..

Humor me at your own risk but in recovery console try /fixboot command and
then try the repair install again? Err... Better wait for confirmation from
someone else or another idea on that but that's what I'd probably try.

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Mike Brearley]

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Humor me at your own risk but in recovery console try /fixboot command and
then try the repair install again? Err... Better wait for confirmation
from someone else or another idea on that but that's what I'd probably
try.

Tried that and I tried fixmbr

 

[Vanguard]

I had to replace the motherboard on a system and was unable to get the same
board. I went in to do a repair install and it's not detecting the
installation (when I pass by the R for recovery console and press enter at
that point instead). It does detect the windows installation in the
recovery console. Is there anything I can do force the system to re-detect
the hardware? When I attempt to boot into XP now choosing any of the
options (even safe mode) I get a bsod and it reboots

If it is a SCSI or SATA drive, you will need to hit F6 when prompted right
at the startup of the install so you can later insert the floppy with the
drivers so Windows can actually see those mass storage devices using those
drivers.

 

[Mike Brearley]

If it is a SCSI or SATA drive, you will need to hit F6 when prompted right
at the startup of the install so you can later insert the floppy with the
drivers so Windows can actually see those mass storage devices using those
drivers.

IDE

 

[Vanguard]

IDE

If you follow the normal install procedure, eventually you are taken to a
screen asking if you want to overwrite the current partition and OS. Say no
and get to the screen that shows the partitions and asks which one you want
to use. If it can show the partitions on the drive than it can see the
drive.

It is also possible the new mobo's controller uses a different geometry
translation for your large drive. That means it cannot recognize the
geometry translation used by the other mobo. When you select LBA mode to
support the large drives, the BIOS or controller uses geometry translation
to change the other parameters so the total number of sectors gets reduced
to 1024. I haven't heard that there was standardization in the LBA
translation. Usually if the other mobo has the same brand BIOS then moving
the drive might work. The safe effect would occur, for example, if your
BIOS didn't support large drives and you switch from using one vendor's disk
overlay manager (which usurps the MBR bootstrap area) with another vendor's
disk overlay manager: they may not use the same translation.

You be stuck with having to get software that attempts to locate old
partitions on the drive. Active@ makes some software to do this
(http://www.broadbandreports.com/forums/fav).

 

[Anna]

I had to replace the motherboard on a system and was unable to get the same
board. I went in to do a repair install and it's not detecting the
installation (when I pass by the R for recovery console and press enter at
that point instead). It does detect the windows installation in the
recovery console. Is there anything I can do force the system to re-detect
the hardware? When I attempt to boot into XP now choosing any of the
options (even safe mode) I get a bsod and it reboots

Thanks..

Mike:
Just to clarify your problem...

After you boot to the XP installation CD and bypass the Recovery console
Repair option, and you accept the License Agreement, the following screen
will (presumably) have the Repair option available. It *is* that Repair
option that you're choosing, right? Or is it that no Repair option is
available at that point? Or if there is the Repair option and you do select
it, what happens? What do you mean when you say "it's not detecting the
installation"? Do you get some sort of an error message at this point?

Is the XP installation CD you're using the same version (Home or Pro) that
was used to originally install the OS?
Anna

 

[Mike Brearley]

Mike:
Just to clarify your problem...

After you boot to the XP installation CD and bypass the Recovery console
Repair option, and you accept the License Agreement, the following screen
will (presumably) have the Repair option available. It *is* that Repair
option that you're choosing, right? Or is it that no Repair option is
available at that point? Or if there is the Repair option and you do
select it, what happens? What do you mean when you say "it's not detecting
the installation"? Do you get some sort of an error message at this point?

Is the XP installation CD you're using the same version (Home or Pro) that
was used to originally install the OS?
Anna

Ummm... I feel like an idiot now. I realized before I read this post that
the previous install was XP Home and I was using an XP Pro CD. If I still
have problems, I'll post another message.

 

[Guest]

:

Ummm... I feel like an idiot now. I realized before I read this post that
the previous install was XP Home and I was using an XP Pro CD. If I still
have problems, I'll post another message.

Yes, that should fix your problem. Don't ask how I know that...

 

[Galen]

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Yes, that should fix your problem. Don't ask how I know that...

Thank you all. I needed a good smile.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of
existence." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Michael Stevens]

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I had to replace the motherboard on a system and was unable to get
the same board. I went in to do a repair install and it's not
detecting the installation (when I pass by the R for recovery console
and press enter at that point instead). It does detect the windows
installation in the recovery console. Is there anything I can do
force the system to re-detect the hardware? When I attempt to boot
into XP now choosing any of the options (even safe mode) I get a bsod
and it reboots
Thanks..

See the Warnings link in the article below.

Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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[Mike Brearley]

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Thank you all. I needed a good smile.

Yeah, it was one of those times that you realize, no matter how long
you've been doing this sort of thing, you'll still make a silly mistake once
in awhile.

The repair install did not work, it was still blue screening when it
attempted to start the re-install process (after it reboots from copying all
the files). I went from a P4 system board and processor to a Sempron 64
though, so there may not have even been a workable solution. I ended up
reloading a second OS in C:\XPHOME so as to not distroy any files, then
reloaded the apps that were on the system.

Thanks everyone for your help.