Jon Tydda
jon at tydda.plus.com
Wed Jul 21 17:25:03 CDT 2004
knoppix? I'll look it up... I don't know, I've never used xp before... not been a problem with 2k. I might get him to use a proper OS ;-) Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francisco H Tapia" <my.lists at verizon.net> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Emergency - winXP problem you transplanted a mobo on a pc running XP and expected it not to have a problem? :D, Each device generates guids, generally a sysprep before you start ripping out hardware is the fix... if you boot w/ Knoppix can you see data on the drives? Jon Tydda wrote On 7/21/2004 2:27 PM: >I've just transplanted a new motherboard, processor and RAM into a friends >pc... I've turned it on, and now the pc can't or won't see the C:\ drive and >won't boot. > >I've run fixmbr to fix the master boot record, and fixboot, to fix the boot >partition... but it insists that there is an error loading the operating >system, and it says that there is nothing installed on the drive. I know >this to be untrue, as I have been administering this pc for about 6 >months... I've tried a recovery console repair, but it can't find anything >to repair, the same with a repair install... > >actually, thinking about it, would the fact that I'm using a win2k cd to >repair an xp install be a problem??? hmm... I really need a holiday... > > >Jon > > -- -Francisco _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com