fried mobo/need upgrading help

[pinoy87]

First off I fried my mobo. Now Im about to upgrade to a Nforce2 mobo but I know that I wont be able to boot my hard drive in my new mobo. How do I go about upgrading my mobo then?

OS: Windows XP pro
HDD: WD 60gb 2mb cache

[TOAD6147]

There's many threads dealing with this issue and there are many approaches to the problem. Do a search and read several or all and try what's suggested.

Why wouldn't you be able to boot with the new motherboard? The XP stuff? It shouldn't hassle you too badly.

[pinoy87]

See the thing is whenever I transfer my hard drive to another computer with a different mobo it says OS not found. But then I tried it on my brothers old computer with the same exact kind of mobo I just fried and it boots. It seems like I cant use other mobo's with my hard drive.

Also when I set my hard drive as slave and another hard drive that is not windows xp and is fat32 the system doesnt recognize my hard drive.(This was before I fried my mobo so the drive was for sure working properly)

My hard drive is NTFS format.

[pickel]

Just boot from the CD with the XP disc installed and re-install XP saving your settings.

[ragtop]

Originally posted by pinoy87
Also when I set my hard drive as slave and another hard drive that is not windows xp and is fat32 the system doesnt recognize my hard drive.(This was before I fried my mobo so the drive was for sure working properly)

My hard drive is NTFS format.

If you boot an older OS (ie:WIN98) that doesn't support NTFS, then it won't recognize the NTFS drive. (but it should still be detected in BIOS)

Also: make sure the drive is properly jumpered for the configuration you are using. Some brands can be a little picky - ie: a WD drive set as master won't work if there's no slave drive installed on the channel.

[pinoy87]

Pickel,

Thanks for the suggestion. Ill try that tomorow since thats when the parts are coming.

ragtop,

It is still recognized in the bios. The only thing is that after like 2 min of not booting up, it says OS not detected.

Are you saying my drive will be recognized if I made a drive thats NTFS with windows xp as master and mine as slave?

Thanks for the help

Ill check back tomorow if I have further problems.