Prob Getting Win XP to boot after upgrade

[MTAtech]

I've been struggling with this upgrade for a couple of weeks. The first problems were hardware. Now, after getting the hardware issues straightened out, I can't boot into my original installed Windows XP installation from the pre-upgraded C drive.

On previous upgrades, on first boot, Windows would find the new hardware without problem (well, maybe it would miss one or two devices but at least boot into Windows so that I could manually load drivers.) This time, when loading I get a BSOD for 1/10 of a second and then the system reboots. I'm using my corporate licensed XP that doesn't limit hardware changes.

The old mobo chip set was a AMD 939 and the new one is an Intel 775. My guess is that the installed Windows doesn't have the basic drivers to boot.

I seem to remember a "Repair" option when booting from the Orig Win XP disk that would repair a current installation. That was located after hitting ENTER, then there was another "R" for repair. However, I only see "press R to repair using the Recovery Console" which just gives a command line interface. If one presses ENTER instead of "R" the options are only replace the current Windows folder (e.g. blow out current installation) or create a second one. Either way, I have to reinstall all apps.

In the Recovery Console it shows D:\WINDOWS

[MTAtech]

OK, the problem is that XP thought the Windows drive was the "D" drive not the "C" drive. I disconnected my backup drive and Windows recognized the boot drive as "C" and then gave me the Repair option after ENTER.

I'm doing the install now and post how it went.

[MTAtech]

Repaired XP perfectly! Loaded the new drivers and all set.