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Charlie Sumpter
I have a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard that went bad on me. I
purchased a PC Chips M848ALU to replace it, and after swapping the
motherboards (all other components remained the same) XP won't boot.
I've done a lot of searching on this topic, and I've found that in
this case a repair installation is the way to go. But, when I get to
the screen in the Windows XP Pro Setup where the repair option should
be it's not there! I can use the recovery console, and log into my
installation that way, but when I get to the place (just past the
license screen on the XP installation CD) where I should have the
repair option I don't!
Other places I've checked have said when it's not there you need to do
a clean install. If I must I must, but I have to think there's a way
to add the new drivers needed for my motherboard to my current
installation so I can get it to boot again.
I can't remember for sure, but I think I converted my drive from basic
to dynamic to play around with it and see what additional features I
got by doing so. Could this be part of the problem? If so, is there
a way from the repair console (or some other utility I can boot to) to
switch back to basic?
If not, can I put my dynamic drive in another system as a slave and
pull files off it, or is that not possible w/dynamic drives?
I'm a pretty advanced user (at least advanced enough to get my hands
dirty w/out getting scared), and I'm willing to try anything to get
this back up, so please post replies no matter how difficult the task
may be.
Also, if I truly am up a creeck w/out a paddle, can someone please
direct me to a free utility that will allow me to boot into my ntfs
partition and connect to my DHCP network so I can copy files from my
hard drive to a network folder?
Thanks in advance for your replies! I appreciate any help anyone is
able to offer.
Charlie Sumpter
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Cheap domain names - danggood.com!
purchased a PC Chips M848ALU to replace it, and after swapping the
motherboards (all other components remained the same) XP won't boot.
I've done a lot of searching on this topic, and I've found that in
this case a repair installation is the way to go. But, when I get to
the screen in the Windows XP Pro Setup where the repair option should
be it's not there! I can use the recovery console, and log into my
installation that way, but when I get to the place (just past the
license screen on the XP installation CD) where I should have the
repair option I don't!
Other places I've checked have said when it's not there you need to do
a clean install. If I must I must, but I have to think there's a way
to add the new drivers needed for my motherboard to my current
installation so I can get it to boot again.
I can't remember for sure, but I think I converted my drive from basic
to dynamic to play around with it and see what additional features I
got by doing so. Could this be part of the problem? If so, is there
a way from the repair console (or some other utility I can boot to) to
switch back to basic?
If not, can I put my dynamic drive in another system as a slave and
pull files off it, or is that not possible w/dynamic drives?
I'm a pretty advanced user (at least advanced enough to get my hands
dirty w/out getting scared), and I'm willing to try anything to get
this back up, so please post replies no matter how difficult the task
may be.
Also, if I truly am up a creeck w/out a paddle, can someone please
direct me to a free utility that will allow me to boot into my ntfs
partition and connect to my DHCP network so I can copy files from my
hard drive to a network folder?
Thanks in advance for your replies! I appreciate any help anyone is
able to offer.
Charlie Sumpter
(e-mail address removed)
Remove the caps from my email to reply...
Cheap domain names - danggood.com!