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re: Why Reformat and Reinstall???
Thursday, February 14, 2002 at 10:32 pm
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Posted by Dan (1 messages posted)

Yeah I am getting the same problem, same blue screen when trying to move this hard drive to another motherboard. Anyone know how to get around this??

On Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 6:45 pm, Lee wrote:
>well, he's right, so far ive installed 2 MObo's and (this will be my second time)
>ill have to reinstall.
>
>basically, it boots, then gives youa blue screen sayin that it stopped the startup
>to protect your computer.
>
> if you know how to get around it, drop me an email, cos thats how i found this forum,
>looking for a way to do this w/out reformatting/reinstalling.
>
>laters
>Lee
>
>
>

>On Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 1:19 am, Tom S wrote:

>
>
>Les, I can't imagine why you'd need to reformat and reinstall anything on the hard 
>drive, when you change the motherboard. Shouldn't be a problem at all.
>
>



>On Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 3:13 pm, Les Guiblin wrote:
>I wish to put a new motherboard in my PC.  I know I wil end up having to reformat 
>and re-install XP but am concerned that XP Activation will not recognise my machine 
>due to this significant change.  Please advise.
>

Written in response to:: re: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Lee: Tuesday, February 5, 2002 at 6:45 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]

New Motherboard Reinstall XP (Les Guiblin: Sun, Dec 9, 2001, 3:13 pm)

re: New Motherboard Reinstall XP (Ricky Tan: Sun, Dec 9, 2001, 4:28 pm)

Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Tom S: Tue, Dec 11, 2001, 1:19 am)

re: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Lee: Tue, Feb 5, 2002, 6:45 pm)

re: Why Reformat and Reinstall??? (Dan: Thu, Feb 14, 2002, 10:32 pm)

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