New motherboard & I can't boot in C drive

[Eug7]

My old motherboard died. I have a new MB/CPU but I can't boot the sytem with my old C drive. I have data I'd like to recover. What can I do?

[snowmonkey]

Are you sure that your Motherboard died, not your Hard drive ? Is your have drive being detected in the BIOS of the old computer /Motherboard? can you hear you hard drive spining at all ?


cheers

[Play_The_0dds]

xp usually wont boot with a new motherboard or other major hardware change. you will have to repair/reinstall xp to get it to boot. if you dont format at anytime you wont loose your files, will just have to reinstall a few programs and all your windows updates.

[Eug7]

To answer snowmonkey. The video died on the motherboard. Several AGP & a PCI video card didn't cause video to return. Yes the hard drive spind up but I can't see anything.

known_criminal,
So, I would boot with the installation disc and tell install to repair Windows XP?

[Play_The_0dds]

yes, repair or reinstall. just dont let it format.