Please Help! Mobo upgrade...xp probs

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Ideally I would like to remove WIN ME all together and be able to have my
winxp hard drive be the primary IDE master, be able to clean off the drive
and use it for storage

I am upgrading from Asus A7v133 to A7n8x-e Deluxe , Currently

"C" drive is plugged into Pri IDE and has Win ME on it...
"D" is plugged into Pri IDE (second connector) <storage only>
"E" is plugged into Pri ATA 100 Port and has Win XP on it
"F" is a DVDRW drive and is plugged into Sec ATA 100 Port

This is a multi boot system with Win ME being the origional OS
I install WIN XP on a new drive "e" and it is the only OS I use anymore.

When i connect these drives to the new motherboard WIN XP wont boot.....WIN
ME still will but like I said I never use it.

I connected the drives in the new mobo like this

C and D was plugged into PRI IDE
E and F was plugged into SEC IDE

when multi boot comes up if you select Start normally it runs for about 30
secs then reboots on its own if you run it in safe mode it will load about
25-30 drivers then reboot on its own....as i said it will run WIN ME
normally. Please advise on how to get this up and running
 
Also my boot.ini looks like this....
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows"
 
Ideally I would like to remove WIN ME all together and be able to have
my winxp hard drive be the primary IDE master, be able to clean off
the drive and use it for storage

I am upgrading from Asus A7v133 to A7n8x-e Deluxe , Currently

"C" drive is plugged into Pri IDE and has Win ME on it...
"D" is plugged into Pri IDE (second connector) <storage only>
"E" is plugged into Pri ATA 100 Port and has Win XP on it
"F" is a DVDRW drive and is plugged into Sec ATA 100 Port

This is a multi boot system with Win ME being the origional OS
I install WIN XP on a new drive "e" and it is the only OS I use
anymore.

When i connect these drives to the new motherboard WIN XP wont
boot.....WIN ME still will but like I said I never use it.

I connected the drives in the new mobo like this

C and D was plugged into PRI IDE
E and F was plugged into SEC IDE

when multi boot comes up if you select Start normally it runs for
about 30 secs then reboots on its own if you run it in safe mode it
will load about 25-30 drivers then reboot on its own....as i said it
will run WIN ME normally. Please advise on how to get this up and
running
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Sounds like you need to do a repair install of XP. This is typical of
the way XP acts when you change motherboards. Boot from your XP CD, and
follow it all the way thru (DON'T pick restore console) to where it asks
if you want to install Windows. Click yes... it will then find your
current installation (on E) and ask you if you want to do a repair
installation. Hit "R" and it'll run thru the whole installation routine
but your files will remain intact. It will detect your new motherboard
and get the drivers right and you'll be OK.
Windows 98 and ME were a little bit more forgiving and that's probably
the reason you can boot ME alright. Whatever you do, XP will always be on
"E" since it was set up that way. You could probably delete everything
except the root directory of C and have it available for storage. You
could edit boot.ini (which HAS to stay on C) to not include ME. Someone
else can tell you exactly how to do that so that you'd probably not even
see the boot menu. (I think I know, but I'm not sticking my neck out)
 
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