In theory, a fresh hard drive (fdisked and formatted, of course) and a clean installation 
of XP should be cake.  XP should install, detect all hradware, load drivers, and 
in about an hour be showing a desktop with some icons.

If not, then are you trying something a bit out of the ordinary, like RAID, SCSI, 
SATA/150, etc?  These may require special drivers to be loaded from a floppy at a 
crucial moment during the installation process. Watch for the message about third-party 
drivers.







On Monday, February 17, 2003 at 10:32 pm, Chris Alberto wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do I upgrade my motherboard in Windows 2000/XP?:

>
>I recently installed a new motherboard and then the system would not boot.  I'm 
reading 
>your solution but my Windows 2000 does not have an "upgrade" option, only Install 
>or Repair.  So, I figured I would skip the 2000 and go to XP.  Many more problems 
>persist with this install and I'm using a fresh new drive (I figured the old one 
>was about 6 years old and maybe that was causing problems, so I dumped it)  Why 
am 
>I having so many problems installing a new OS on a new drive?

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