I am having a little trouble upgrading my brother's computer. I got a new
motherboard, processor and memory (all compatible) and intended on using the
existing hard drive, power supply and CD drives. I thought it would be a
simple case of swapping out the parts.

The old HD has WinME installed and I expected it to startup and then windows
to reconfig to the new hardware.

The system says that the IDE drive does not contain the boot info when I try
to start-up. I can't boot from the start-up disk either but it takes me to a
dos prompt. From here I can see that all the files are still on C:.

I'd rather not reformat and install. I have read that there is a way to
update the information held on the hardrive to allow it to work with the new
motherboard - I am hoping someone here can give me more help with this.

Thanks for the help in advance. Let me know if you need more info.

Cheers.