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caprice

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Won't read harddrive
« on: March 18, 2006, 07:27:19 AM »
I recently changed my motherboard,cpu,and ram and I'm trying to reuse my old harddrive but when it tries to boot to windows I get the message that windows didn't start correctly and it reboots. I've tried safe mode but it seems like it reads 0 sectors and then shows some files but nothing happens. Could it be the way my bios is setup
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pcdoc4christ

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Re:  Won't read harddrive
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2006, 08:22:08 AM »
Windows on the old hard drive is expecting to find the old motherboard.  You will have to reinstall Windows so it will add drivers for the new motherboard.

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Re:  Won't read harddrive
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2006, 12:00:28 PM »
If you're running XP Home on this you'll probably need to re-activate it as well.
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pcdoc4christ

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Re:  Won't read harddrive
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2006, 10:07:54 AM »
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If you're running XP Home on this you'll probably need to re-activate it as well.

Backdated is correct.  In fact, i've had to reactivate Windows XP after installing Service Pack 2 (Billy's boys just don't trust anyone)!

 ;D
« Last Edit: March 19, 2006, 10:08:11 AM by pcdoc4christ »
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