NEW BOARD NO BOOT

[gilly]

Tried to upgrade to a new board with AMD AThlon Xp 2000+,
old hard drive says missing ntldr, new hard drive(after
clonning old) says "REMOVE ALL DISKS OR MEDIA AND RESTART"

"PLEASE HELP pronto, PLEASE"

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Alex Nichol]

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Tried to upgrade to a new board with AMD AThlon Xp 2000+,
| old hard drive says missing ntldr, new hard drive(after
| clonning old) says "REMOVE ALL DISKS OR MEDIA AND RESTART"
|
| "PLEASE HELP pronto, PLEASE"

 

[Tim Slattery]

Tried to upgrade to a new board with AMD AThlon Xp 2000+,
old hard drive says missing ntldr, new hard drive(after
clonning old) says "REMOVE ALL DISKS OR MEDIA AND RESTART"

If you're switching motherboards, you'll pretty surely need to boot
from the XP CD and do a repair install.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Normally, and assuming either a retail license or a generic
(non-branded) OEM license, unless the new motherboard is virtually
identical to the old one (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same
BIOS version, etc.), you'll need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place
upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This may also require re-activation. If it's been more than 120
days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most
likely be able to activate via the internet without problem. If it's
been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call.


Bruce Chambers

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[Alex Nichol]

Tried to upgrade to a new board with AMD AThlon Xp 2000+,
old hard drive says missing ntldr, new hard drive(after
clonning old) says "REMOVE ALL DISKS OR MEDIA AND RESTART"

After such a major hardware change you need as first thing to do a
repair reinstall. Set the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then boot
the XP CD, start Setup (do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then after
the license agreement take 'Repair Installation'. This will retain
your existing software installations and most settings. But Updates
will have to be run again, especially SP1;
It is important to activate the basic XP Firewall before you ever
connect to the net to get the patches, so as to be protected against
things like the BLAST worm.

.. You will probably find you have made so many changes that you need to
activate again by phoning in,