Solve : How do i get windows xp running again??

1.	Solve : How do i get windows xp running again??
Answer» I just installed a new motherboard, processor, video card, the whole 10 yards. I used the hard drive from my previous system which ran windows xp. after installing my motherboard and setting the bios, my system will not start up. it just keeps recycling to the same SCREEN. wut do i do?Have you re-installed Windows XP (Home/Pro?) since FITTING the drive? Is the drive partitioned?Yes the drive is partitioned. i did not attempt a reinstall since installing the new motherboard. WOULD it be possible if i just reset my bios to BOOT from my drive?yes the drive is partitioned. is it possible to reinstall it by changing my bios setting to boot the cd drive first?You need to reinstall WIndows with that hardware setup. Occasionally you can get a system running with what you did, but if so there can be other problems down the road. Do you have a legal Windows CD to do it the RIGHT way?Quote yes the drive is partitioned. Is it possible to reinstall it by changing my bios setting to boot the cd drive first? You could install to an empty partition so that you can recover the C: drive if you really need to. Otherwise with all that new hardware you should consider a clean-install. Are the partitons formatted to NTFS or to FAT32? If you have a FAT32 partition you could use a bootdisk and copy the I386 folder to it and then run winnt.exe

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I just installed a new motherboard, processor, video card, the whole 10 yards. I used the hard drive from my previous system which ran windows xp. after installing my motherboard and setting the bios, my system will not start up. it just keeps recycling to the same SCREEN. wut do i do?Have you re-installed Windows XP (Home/Pro?) since FITTING the drive?

Is the drive partitioned?Yes the drive is partitioned. i did not attempt a reinstall since installing the new motherboard. WOULD it be possible if i just reset my bios to BOOT from my drive?yes the drive is partitioned. is it possible to reinstall it by changing my bios setting to boot the cd drive first?You need to reinstall WIndows with that hardware setup. Occasionally you can get a system running with what you did, but if so there can be other problems down the road.

Do you have a legal Windows CD to do it the RIGHT way?Quote

yes the drive is partitioned. Is it possible to reinstall it by changing my bios setting to boot the cd drive first?

You could install to an empty partition so that you can recover the C: drive if you really need to. Otherwise with all that new hardware you should consider a clean-install.

Are the partitons formatted to NTFS or to FAT32?

If you have a FAT32 partition you could use a bootdisk and copy the I386 folder to it and then run winnt.exe

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