Moving HD to new build

[babylon5guy]

Hi,
I took the hard drive out of an Athlon 1.2 GIG PC that blew and when I rebuilt the PC with Abit IS7 mobo and Celeron D CPU I was hoping I could at least get it going so I could install the chipset drivers for the IS7, but I guess that isn't going to work, the PC just keeps rebooting when it goes to XP even in safe mode. Is a total reinstall of XP the only solution?
TIA

[bailey]

no. you can do a repaire install, that will usally fix the problem, but for what your doing it really would be best to do a fresh install, because you need to install the new drivers for the new motherboard as soon as the O/S is installed and before any software is installed, so that you will not be getting the motherboard drivers that is already on the hard drive messing with everything and causeing problems.
but at least try the repaire install, then install all the drivers and softwre for the new motherboard, they will be on the cd that came with the new motherboard, it may work ok that way. mine did.

[babylon5guy]

Thanks bailey, if I can just get it going and backup their mail I don't mind doing a total reinstall.

[bob_man_uk]

if you install on another hard drive you can put the hard drive from the other PC as a secondary master and then backup the information then format and reinstall, or as answered by bailey, repair XP which looks like a reinstall or just install windows XP over the top and find all the information you want to back up.

MattyG

[babylon5guy]

Thanks for the tip MattyG.