Old HDD to New Mobo

[Parker]

Hello All,
I have moved a HDD to a new mobo this weekend and followed the reinstall
procedure from Michael Stevens from his site. Previously this HDD would not
boot past the windows screen with the blue scroll, it would just reboot. I
moved it to a new mobo and tried a repair install(to no avail,did the same
thing), tried a chkdsk/r which it did find bad sectors but still did the
same. I tried fixmbr and fixboot both of which still didnt work. It also
will not go into SafeMode. I moved this drive because I wanted to upgrade
from the previous mobo anyway so I thought this would work the same as if I
tried this on the old Mobo. This is a new AsRock board w/2.8 processor, 1gb
RAM Xp pro install on HDD. Bios for this mobo does find all periferals fine
and all looked fine. Is there any other repair possiblities? Or do I need
to replace?! I'm a bit disappointed with this HDD (Maxtor 160gb). This is
the second time I've had 1 go bad in 3 years. Yes I guess I learned my
lesson.

Thanks for Any Reponses In Advance

 

[Jim]

Hello All,
I have moved a HDD to a new mobo this weekend and followed the reinstall
procedure from Michael Stevens from his site. Previously this HDD would
not boot past the windows screen with the blue scroll, it would just
reboot. I moved it to a new mobo and tried a repair install(to no
avail,did the same thing), tried a chkdsk/r which it did find bad sectors
but still did the same. I tried fixmbr and fixboot both of which still
didnt work. It also will not go into SafeMode. I moved this drive
because I wanted to upgrade from the previous mobo anyway so I thought
this would work the same as if I tried this on the old Mobo. This is a
new AsRock board w/2.8 processor, 1gb RAM Xp pro install on HDD. Bios for
this mobo does find all periferals fine and all looked fine. Is there any
other repair possiblities? Or do I need to replace?! I'm a bit
disappointed with this HDD (Maxtor 160gb). This is the second time I've
had 1 go bad in 3 years. Yes I guess I learned my lesson.

Thanks for Any Reponses In Advance

If it still has bad sectors, throw it away. Perhaps the bad sectors caused
your problem with the old board.
Jim

 

[Parker]

Thank You Jim. I was hoping for another way but I believe you are correct
and I will be putting a new HDD in (not a Maxtor). Thank You again

 

[David L McMurray]

Thank You Jim. I was hoping for another way but I believe you are
correct and I will be putting a new HDD in (not a Maxtor). Thank You
again

Or install the old drive as a second drive for non-critical info and to
copy your salvageable files later. Drives are just too cheap to depend
on a system drive that's showing defects.

David

 

[Parker]

Hi David,

Will do! I thought that most of the info(.doc,.xls,mp3's etc) would still
be ok. The new drive will be installed shortly and info copied to the new
drive from the old. Thanks again to all!