I have recently upgraded my mother board, processor, graphics card and RAM. I didn’t expect windows to easily accept the hardware change, and it didn’t. I booted the Windows disk and started to repair Windows XP. When the computer had rebooted and was installing drivers, the box popped up about driver was not verified (Any relevance?), I clicked yes and then the installation stopped. No hard drive of progress for 30 min and then I rebooted. I have tried this 3 times but to no avail. I could reinstall Windows XP completely but I have files, setting and applications which cannot be reinstalled. I don’t know if it is ANYTHING to do with the driver or not but help would be APPRECIATED. I am stuck for ideas as I can’t copy the files using DOS because it is formatted in NTFS.

Thanks

Computer information:
ASUS P5B Motherboard
Intel pentium D 2.88GHz processer 800MHz FSB
Sapphire Radeon X1650PRO Graphics card
40GB Master Hard drive
250GB Secondary Hard drive
DVD Drive
Cd writer drive
Kingmax 512MB RAM DDRII 800MHz FSBDriver verification can be ignored...select continue anyways.
What repair method are you using step by step...

patio.   8-)Not backing up your data beforehand was a bit foolish. Your problem could be caused by bad hardware - either it is faulty or not assembled correctly - or by Windows not liking it. When changing the motherboard, it's best so start with a clean Windows installation to certainly rule out that possibilty, but that's not so easy here. If you have another computer you can add the harddrive as slave to retrieve information.

How far into Windows can you actually get? Can you "use" your computer?I can't use Windows. It is stuck on the instalation process. I have tried installing a copy onto the second hard drive and this works fine. But I can't access my files "Access Denined". This is proably becuse I have a password on my user, although I can see the Administrators account files? My documents are on a seconed partition and these are SAFE but I need to retrive files in my application settings such as, outlook.pst and my favorites. I am using Windows XP disk to repair windows.
I am assuming that now I will have to compleatly have to reinstall windows but I just need to recover ome files.Read this to recover access denied files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421had similar problems myself recently, changed the motherboard reinstalled xp , now i get the pc suddenly restarting itself (i get message up after it STARTS again saying the system has recovered from a serious error and had to close send error report/do not send etc i always press send and it opens an internet page always saying the same THING about the drivers but not which ones and isnt much help) this can happen 0 - 10 times a day (more if i didnt give up) and often get a message up saying internet explorer/ msn messenger/ ntl netguard (or whatever programs are runnin has encountered a problem and needs to close which happens at least 5 times a day (annoying if you are in the middle of something)
Not sure whats causing this Anyone got any ideas ?? have tried to be as descriptive as possible but can answeres be in easy english pleaseIf you change motherboards a format and clean install of Windows is best.it was a clean install of windows and has been formattedDid you re-install all your device drivers ? ?