Replaced motherboard

[Swoosh]

I have had to replace a faulty mobo on my home built PC.
Now when I try and start windows, "Windows did not start
successfully, a recent hardware / software change may
have caused this" I guess that the cause of this is the
change of motherboard.
When I boot from Win XP cd, to re-install / repair,
windows informs me that it can't find a hard disk. I have
a maxtor 80GB SATA.
I havn't changed anything other than the mobo.
Microsoft won't help as my version of Win XP is oem.
Can anyone advise????

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I have had to replace a faulty mobo on my home built PC.
| Now when I try and start windows, "Windows did not start
| successfully, a recent hardware / software change may
| have caused this" I guess that the cause of this is the
| change of motherboard.
| When I boot from Win XP cd, to re-install / repair,
| windows informs me that it can't find a hard disk. I have
| a maxtor 80GB SATA.
| I havn't changed anything other than the mobo.
| Microsoft won't help as my version of Win XP is oem.
| Can anyone advise????

 

[Mike Brearley]

You'll need to load your new motherboard's sata drivers. When the XP cd is
booting, you have an option to press F6. You'll need to do that, then when
prompted, inster the motherboards sata driver disk into your floppy drive
and use the S (Specify) to load the drivers from the disk.

If the motherboard didn't come with a driver disk, you'll need to go out to
their website to download them.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Swoosh]

Windows asks for drivers to be installed from a: drive.
My drivers are on a cd rom. I think they might be too big
to fit on a floppy

 

[R. McCarty]

Normally, a driver set will be comprised of the following.
-.Inf
-.Sys
-.Cat
You may also have some .Exe and .Dll's if the hardware
also installs a watchdog or monitoring program.
If you examine the software, you should find a sub-folder
called drivers and then sub-folders below it for each type
of operating system. Usually, you can copy the contents
of the XP/2000 folder onto a floppy and then use that to
do the Repair install with custom drivers.