so frustrated

[purplehazeus]

Heyo,

if someone could ease my brain I would be grateful. I just got a new motherboard and it isn't recognizing the windows xp on my harddrive. I tried reinstalling xp on my old motherboard and then putting it on the new mobo and it didn't work. I tried booting from the installation cd disk ( i tried switching the boot up from bios it didn't work) I also tried booting from an old windows 98 floppy disk, it didn't recognize either. what could be the problem? Someone told me that because the windows was set up on another mobo with different memory, It was trying to find stuff from the memory on the old board.(which I can't switch over)

So here it is that I've completely disconnected everything reset the cmos and formatted the hard drive(still doesn't recognize the windows xp disk or boot floppy)

wah! I'm on a one way trip to bluesville. Any ideas?

 

[pepsimax2k]

>> I tried reinstalling xp on my old motherboard and then putting it on the new mobo and it didn't work

yeah... that's never gonna work... at least not easily.

What's not being recognized? Can you go through the install routine and get everything set up? Do you get to a reboot and then it doesn't start up again? If so, try changing the boot options to boot from the hard drive (likely HDD0) once it's installed.

EDIT: ok, is it just the CD doesn't boot? How far can you get? Does it recognize all the drives in bios, then give a no OS found message once it's turned on? Maybe need to try getting it to boot from the CD drive correctly, or try a different drive, or a different CD.

 

[purplehazeus]

The windows xp installation disk and the floppy are not being recognized. Before I formatted the disk It would only slightly start xp then go back around. but now that it's formatted. There is nothing on the hard drive. I'm just not able to Install. I tried to change it around in boot options. Still nothing. It's like it doesn't even recognize the cd or the floppy.

 

[pepsimax2k]

Can you boot off any other CDs? Eg. memtest86, Ubuntu live cd...

 

[purplehazeus]

Yes it recognizes everything hardware related. The cd doesn't even began to boot, nor does the floppy. I tried a different drive same thing. I pressed f8 to get it to boot from the cd, same thing with the floppy. I also went into the bios and changed the boot order to cd rom then hdd then floppy.

 

[purplehazeus]

I don't have any other cd's

 

[pepsimax2k]

Ok, other stuff to try... is anything set up as RAID? Does the drive have master/slave set up correctly? Is it in the correct IDE/sata socket?

Then you really need to find another bootable CD, you can try downloading memtest86+ and burn it to CD or borrow something off someone. At least then you'll know if you have a problem with the Windows CD or not, or with your current optical drive, or something else.

 

[chuckm]

Is bios set to boot from the cd?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Please list the specific hardware i.e. Mobo, optical drive make&model and Hdd make&model