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I screwed up

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I think I have well and truly screwed up. I copied/cloned everything to the new drive. Everything seemed to be working and then I lost my display. I then put a new display card in and tried that. It didn't work either. I tried the card in another machine and it worked fine. Put it back in the other machine and this time it worked. Did some stuff, rebooted, and no display. I went through this stuff about 5 times. As far as I can tell my motherboard is toast. I have bought a new motherboard and it will be here in a couple of days. However, now I have some choices. Oh, when I was checking out the clone, making sure everything was dandy, etc. I fully erased acronis from the hard drive.

The first is to try and move the new drive to the new motherboard and go through the xp install disk, get it to copy the drivers for the new board (repair), etc. This is what I suspect I am going to have to do.

The other option is to put another new drive into the machine, install a new operating system and then try and move programs and data to the new drive. I don't think that acronis true image 2014 will allow me to pick and choose like that but, perhaps?

The reason for all of this is that I am hoping somebody can tell me what they think I should do before I tear into the problem.

Thank you..........

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Well John, you certainly do have a problem. Did you just do a Clone of the old drive to a new one or did you perform a backup and restore to copy the old drive to the new? If you did a backup and restore you could use the backup and the Universal Restore option (if you are using ATI Premium) to restore to with new mobo. If you did a Clone what was the reason for doing so, disk going bad, go to larger disk, etc? Did you create a Bootable Media Disk to work with using the Acronis app or one downloaded from the Support site? How much different is the new mobo from the old? What chipset versions are the old board versus the new?

I think you might be able to install the new board along with the new drive. Then boot windows into safe mode and install the new chipset drivers for the new mobo. Then normal boot the machine. It should boot I would imagine given it did once before. You then are only faced with contacting Microsoft Support, telling them you had to replace your mobo and have them re-authenticate your Windows install. I have found they are reasonably understanding in scenarios like yours.