XP won't boot with new board & processor

[sailg]

Several weeks ago I installed a new bigger hard drive and
transferred XP files, etc., to it from the old drive. A
couple of weeks ago I installed a new motherboard, faster
processor and RAM with the same hard drive. System would
not boot and appeared to not find windows. I've tried
everything, even reformatted the drive and tried
reinstalling XP Home Edition from the original CD many
times. Installation appears to start and then aborts at
various stages. What can I do? Thanks.

 

[Rich Barry]

Go into the Bios and set to Optimal or Default Settings. Also, try
deleting the partition you want Xp to
install on and create a new one.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Do you have an OEM disk or a retail disk? If OEM, you cannot use it to do
what you are trying to do..it was configured for the original hardware and
now it cant boot because the hardware is different.

Bobby

 

[Guest]

Bull...do you really think Microsoft writes a different OEM version of XP for each and every different hardware configuration in the world?

 

[Stew Basterash]

Actually...

Microsoft, I believe, has three distributed versions of Windows... OEM...
Retail... and Volume... all three use different key's... In other words, no
real difference in Windows itself, only difference is how activation, and
key's that work... You cannot use a valid retail key on an OEM version, and
vis-versa... You also cannot use a valid volume key on either of the others,
and vis-versa...

The real reason your system won't come up is how activation works...
Activeation is based on a Hardware signature on the system that it is
installed on... Each time your system comes up Windows checks the install
database against the current system... If it finds too many discrepencies it
will re-initialize activation... Once that happens you have three days to
re-activate or it will lock you out...

Activation is not a factor and not enabled on Volume and Select License
agreements...

Bull...do you really think Microsoft writes a different OEM version of XP

for each and every different hardware configuration in the world?