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donsor - 03 May 2008 14:48 GMT

I cannibalized a working PC using its mobo, CPU, RAM, video card and the hard
drive which contained its OS (WinXP Home) and installed them in a second PC.
The second PC was gutted with the exception of the PSU and the optical
drives.

The installation went well. The POST was successful and after inserting the
boot up floppy i got an A:> prompt. I was expecting it to boot to Windows
right away but it did not.

I have the disk for Windows and the Start Up CD for the motherboard. What do
I do next? Do I re-install or do I do a clean install.

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Andrew E. - 04 May 2008 05:21 GMT

By default a MB usually has floppy drive as 1st boot device,change to hd.
Also,what or where did a "boot-up floppy" come from....With a new MB,the hd
is hardly capable of booting into windows,try booting to xp cd,select
install xp,
new copy,delete the partition,create one,then let xp format & install auto.

> I cannibalized a working PC using its mobo, CPU, RAM, video card and the hard
> drive which contained its OS (WinXP Home) and installed them in a second PC.
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> I have the disk for Windows and the Start Up CD for the motherboard. What do
> I do next? Do I re-install or do I do a clean install.

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DL - 04 May 2008 23:30 GMT

So if you moved all parts to a new box, including the hard drive containing
a working o/s why are you using a boot up floppy?
If you used a boot up floppy then you will get the A prompt!
Take the floppy out & reboot

>I cannibalized a working PC using its mobo, CPU, RAM, video card and the
>hard
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> do
> I do next? Do I re-install or do I do a clean install.

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