Help!! New motherboard, new problem
 

I just took out my Soyo Dragon Plus! and replaced it with a Asus A7N8X-X. I also upgraded to a Athlon XP 2000+. When I boot up with just 1 HD my PC hangs at "Verifying DMI pool data..." When I boot with 2 of my drives hooked up it goes past the DMI pool stuff and tells me NTDLR is missing. I tried to go into the repair console on the XP CD and fix my master boot record, but that didn't do anything. Help!! :confused:

My specs: :cool:
Asus A7N8X-X Rev. 2.0 BIOS 1004
Athlon XP2000+
2 x 512MB DDR2100
GeForce 3 Ti200 @ 475
LiteOn 48x CD Burner
Sony 16x DVD (not hooked up)
80 Gig WD SE (Main boot drive)
2 x 40 Gig
Antec case w/400watt PS
Windows XP Pro w/ all patches and SP1

P.S. If you need more info let me know.

Why not just boot from you XP disc and repair the farked files.

This will tell you how to do that if you're not sure.

Or wait until XP says it see's a previous installation and asks if you want to repair, (the second repair).

whenever you change motherboard/cpu you will always have to repair or re-install the OS. Also what it sounds like, when you hook up the one drive, thats not the drive with the OS on it.

Sixate, I did what that link said but I still get the same NTLDR is missing. Anyone know what NTLDR is? I need my BF1942 fix! ;)

I personally would never do a motherboard and CPU change without doing a clean install of XP.

You will need to reinstall windows. You can reinstall over the previous one, but I personally feel this is an unclean approach.

If you have data on the old harddrive that you must recover, you should install over the OS so it is bootable, back up the data, and start over fresh.

This is why having your OS and Data HD separate is a good idea. :) RAID mirroring with two harddrives is a great option as well: before doing critical changes such as changing the motherboard, you can break the mirror and garauntee you have a full backup. If you need to reinstall the OS on one of the drives, you can recover the data off of the mirrored one later. Very convenient.

Boot from you XP cd and try to install Windows(upgrade). I had this problem once and that worked for me. I didn't lose anything doing it like that.

Well, I'm back up and running. Thanks for your help everyone! I had to reinstall over my existing XP so I could save the files I needed. Then came the dreaded reformat. :( I reinstalled Winblows and the 210Mb of patches from Micro$oft.

Thanks again. :)

funny thought....210 mb of patches is bigger than the entire Windows os used to be....wow thats better!?