Bluescreen on NEW PC after image restore to new drive after mobo/processor death.

I am a novice!
I have used V7 & V8 trueimage to great effect for file recovery etc.- BUT -I have just had a PC mobo/processor running Win XP die on me. Putting the original hard drive in a new PC results in a blue screen at start up which I cannot get round. (I can read stuff of the drive via IDE/USB on another PC) SO - I restored the latest image of the original drive to a brand new drive (again I can read this via IDE/USB) but this results in the same blue screen asking me to remove changed HD controllers etc etc.
QUESTION: help!!! any ideas anybody??

 

The drivers your backup was using are the wrong ones for the new hardware.
I suggest you try booting from the OS installation disk and select "R" for repair and attempt to repair your installation for the hardware it is running on.

F.

 

Note that is not the first 'R' that you get to, that'll get you the recovery console. You choose install, where it will hopefully tell you it has found an XP install. It will then ask if you want to Repair or install, obviously you choose repair - you will need your product ID number.

Colin

 

Colin,

thank you for clarifying.

F.

 

many, many thanks to foghorne and bodgy for the lifesavers - this disaster has had me on the edge of a nervous breakdown for the last three days !!!
I am now in the process of trying your ideas - but nothing is ever quite straightforward - My orig cd is XP sp1 so I'll need to sp2 it - so it's a two stage job I think. But that is still hugely better than the alternative I had before.
I'll be back with the results later