InPlace Upgrade Repair Xp; New Motherboard

[Phil C.]

Hi. I just had an older epox motherboard die because of leaky capacitors.
The old board used a Via chipset. I set up my harddrive with WinXp on a new
motherboard
with a Nvidia Nforce 2 (Amd) chipset. When I try to do an inplace upgrade
repair using my MSDN subscription Xp Pro CD, I do not get the option to
"press R" and do a repair at all.

This happened once before when I had a problem on the old motherboard with
Xp and was doing an inplace on the same hardware.

Can someone tell me what might prevent setup from doing the repair??

Thanks,

Phil

 

[Guest]

Simple,with a new board a new xp installation is due,a repair wont work....

 

[Larry Samuels]

Hi Phil,

Ignore Andrew--he posts bad advice here on a regular basis.

A repair install is the recommended method of recovery when replacing a
motherboard, but sometimes the windows installation is so corrupted that
setup cannot find an installation to repair.

--
Larry Samuels Associate Expert
MS-MVP (2001-2005)
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
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[Larry Samuels]

Andrew--are you ever going to quit posting blatantly wrong answers?
A repair install is the recommended method of recovery when replacing a
motherboard

--
Larry Samuels Associate Expert
MS-MVP (2001-2005)
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm
Expert Zone- .

 

[Brendon Amos]

Hi

I had a similar problem reciently.
Lucky I have a spare hard drive - what I did (and you could consider this
solution if your in a similar boat) is the following
I set my spare hard drive as the new main drive and kept my old main drive
as a backup
Then I did a fresh install onto my spare drive
After the install I coppied all the data I need from my old drive to my
new drive
Now everything is working very well
Although my experience is quite limited if I ever go thro replacing a
motherboard again I think I would do the same as I've done
because now everything is working very smoothly.

Regards Brendon
Hope this helps you with deciding how to solve your problem