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Hard drive failure (but not crash?)

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Josey, 2006/07/16.

  1. 2006/07/16
    Josey

    Josey Inactive Thread Starter

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    My hard drive is having problems. I have bought a new motherboard and processor and powersupply and the computer is still not working. There is no noise but the hard drive will boot up but I am not able to go into safe mode (when I try, it re-boots). It just keeps re-booting and never enters Windows. I tried to set it up with another hard drive (the other as master and mine as slave) and although it read the other as master and mine as slave, it still would not go into Windows and kept rebooting. I have important data on my hard drive. What can I do?
     
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  2. 2006/07/17
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Josey - Welcome to the Board :)

    The situation as I read it is that you have rebuilt your computer with new mobo, etc and connected your old hard drive which is now giving problems?

    You cannot just swap a hard drive with XP installed to another hardware setup - the old hardware setup is recorded in Windows and Windows is looking for it.

    To resolve the issue you must make a repair install of Windows from the original (full version - not recovery) .....

    Change Motherboard and Save Windows

    How to replace the motherboard on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000
     
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