new mobo and xp, please help.

[Bill C.]

My childrens computer (Compaq with WinXP home) had a
motherboard problem, so I bought a new mobo processer
combo and reused the hard drive,memory,cd-rw,and floppy
drive. After putting it all together and starting up, POST
went fine and all devices found. But I got a message
saying 'operating system not found'. I used a windows boot
disk and was able to run command.com. Then I ran chkdsk /r
and tried to reboot. This time I got an error saying 'cant
load operating system'. I was wanting to use the hard
drive as it was (not reformat) to keep all programs and
settings. Can someone please help. If you have a idea,
please email me.

Thanks, Bill C.

 

[Nicholas]

A "repair install" will likely be required.

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

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]


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Nicholas

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| My childrens computer (Compaq with WinXP home) had a
| motherboard problem, so I bought a new mobo processer
| combo and reused the hard drive,memory,cd-rw,and floppy
| drive. After putting it all together and starting up, POST
| went fine and all devices found. But I got a message
| saying 'operating system not found'. I used a windows boot
| disk and was able to run command.com. Then I ran chkdsk /r
| and tried to reboot. This time I got an error saying 'cant
| load operating system'. I was wanting to use the hard
| drive as it was (not reformat) to keep all programs and
| settings. Can someone please help. If you have a idea,
| please email me.
|
| Thanks, Bill C.
|

 

[BobDelaney]

Windows (all versions) writes literally thousands of hardware-specific
settings in the System Registry at Setup time. In your case, many of these
are now wrong. You won't lose the applications or data on your computer if
you do either a repair or a re-install, and this ought to correct the
problems you mention.