Reinstall problem

[howard]

I just got a new motherboard.

I put in my XP Pro CD and booted up. It booted, I said to install XP. It
told me it couldn't find an Existing Windows. I thought that was odd
because I that very same Windows XP is on C:, but pulled out first an
XP-Home CD and then a W2K CD and it went ahead. It asked me which
partition to install to, I selected the only one there, which it recognized
as NTFS. It then told me that it couldn't copy files to my hard drive
because it didn't recognize the format.

I decided to boot to the console. I can do this, on C:.

What should I do next?

 

[Malke]

I just got a new motherboard.

I put in my XP Pro CD and booted up. It booted, I said to install
XP. It
told me it couldn't find an Existing Windows. I thought that was odd
because I that very same Windows XP is on C:, but pulled out first an
XP-Home CD and then a W2K CD and it went ahead. It asked me which
partition to install to, I selected the only one there, which it
recognized
as NTFS. It then told me that it couldn't copy files to my hard
drive because it didn't recognize the format.

I decided to boot to the console. I can do this, on C:.

What should I do next?

Boot with your XP cd - delete the existing partition, create a new
partiton, format the drive, and then clean install Windows. Install
drivers and programs from cd's, restore data from backups. Understand
that this process will erase *all* data on the drive.

Malke

 

[Howard Brazee]

Boot with your XP cd - delete the existing partition, create a new
partiton, format the drive, and then clean install Windows. Install
drivers and programs from cd's, restore data from backups. Understand
that this process will erase *all* data on the drive.

I have been afraid of this reply and I hope I don't have to do this. I've got
a lot of registry keys and such that I will lose (full backup doesn't do any
good).