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Windows has trouble after upgrades...

Asked by DreamMaster in Computer Motherboards, Miscellaneous Hardware, Windows XP Operating System

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Hi there Experts,

I am going bonkers here.

Last weekend I finally decided it was enough. I didn't want to wait 15 minutes anymore for Visual Studio 2005 to start on my PC, so I bought some upgrades. New motherboard, new Dual Core AMD Athlon 64 4200+, and 2 GB of Memory. A big switch after coming from an AMD Athlon 2000 XP+ with 512 MB of memory.

I went to work and put everything in place, having the first problem..the new Motherboard only has one IDE connector, (wasn't ever told to me at the store that this was the case) where I have 4 IDE drives, 2 IDE harddisks and 2 IDE DVD drives, I decided I'd go for 2 harddrives first, figuring I needed to have my windows at the very least.

I powered up the system only to get a screen saying Windows couldn't start due to a recent change in hardware configuration. Well duh...I want to upgrade. Now I've read around before I asked this question and found that this is due to some hardware locking in Windows that won't allow you to install the harddrive in a new system. But nothing works for this. I can't get anything to work. I can't boot from CD either as my XP CD doesn't seem to be bootable..

I tried placing everything back the way it was. But now that doesn't seem to do anything anymore either. All I get is a black screen, seems like for some reason it can't start the harddrives? Although I should still see some text on my monitor as far as I know, the BIOS should at least show me something right? I am completely lost and don't know what to do anymore.

Does anyone here have any idea for me how I could get my old harddrives (with Windows on them) to work with the new hardware? This is driving me insane and I have so much work to do that I cannot affoard to be without my pc for too long.

Thanks in advance,
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