Hi Lionel,
Unless someone has a better solution, I think you're going to have to
reinstall the operating system on the drive after it's installed in the new
case along with the new motherboard, etc. It works in it's former location
because it was "born and raised" there. Moving it to a completely new
machine is just too much shock for it and it refuses to work. Since we're
talking an upgrade to XP, and depending on what you upgraded from and how,
it may entail installing the other OS first, then upgrading again to XP.
You might also try booting from the XP upgrade CD and attempt to have it
perform a repair operation. I haven't tried this with an XP upgrade but I'm
assuming it's possible. Time isn't on your side at the moment so possibly
someone on the list who has 'been there, done that' will respond with a
quicker and better solution. Whatever happens, I wish you luck on the
remainder of your tour and a speedy return to your family.
Sven Swanson, Sr.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lionel Daddy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:56 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Old 15GB Hard drive won't boot on new Motherboard
I just bought a new motherboard/CPU chip set and case for my son for his
birthday to teach him how to build a computer. We bought a PCCHIPS M825G;
Socket 462 uATX with VIA KM 266 PRO/8235 CPU CHIP to upgrade from a 4-yr old
Compaq Presario 5BW120 Intel Celeron 600 Mhz System. We kept the Yamaha
CD-RW and the original 15 GB IDE HD Quantum Fireball Lct 15 loaded with
Ugraded Win XP OS. When we assembled the new system together, we experience
a bad power switch off the case and we replaced that. Now that we have
power, I configured the BIOS to auto detect the drives successfully, but no
matter what the old drive would not boot, I just get a " - " waiting on the
screen after the boot up process finishes. I have removed all other dirves
and just tried to boot the drive itself as well as disbled the Flopply
controller because I don't want to install a floppy. I have also switched
the old drive back to the old system to see if it is the HD, but it is not,
it still worked fine. Is there a possible problem with this old HD working
on this new motherboard or could we have a bad mother board? Please help me
as soon as you can! My problem now is I am active military remotely station
in Turkey and I leave in 24 hours. My family is here in Alaska while I am
deployed overseas. My goal is to fixed this before I leave so my son can
have a working PC. Thanks for any help you can provide and God Bless you
all..
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