Help Needed

[Tarwhine]

Hi,
I had a power spike which cooked my motherboard,power supply ect,even thou i had the computer connected to a surge board.

The comp tech took the comp, and said the Hard drive was still ok.
He fixed the computer e.g new motherboard ect ect.

Now the problem, he asked for the windows xp 2005 media edition recovery cd that came with the original computer,which i had. But he said that it wants to wipe the hard drive of all my data when he ran it, because it does not recognise it as the original computer that it was installed on due to new motherboard ect ect. (the original comp came pre installed with xp media edition).

Do you guys Know of some way that i can have my original hard drive installed with all of my data,system settings,applications ect As before ,without having to load all new programs,Broker platform ect .

The Techs next idea is to buy a original 05 xp media edtion disc and load that instead of the recovery disc that came with the original computer, which just wants to clear the hard drive.


Thanks Tarwhine

 

[Cromewell]

With the recovery disks I don't think you can do anything but wipe it all. If you use a new OS cd and repair the installation it should leave everything installed. As long as you have your own windows media center key you don't need to buy it again, any media center cd will work.

 

[Tarwhine]

Thanks for the reply Cromewell,

Sounds like i will have to buy a xp media edition cd because the computer originally came pre installed with that operating system ( but no CD supplied) just that stupid recovery CD which seems to be useless if the computer gets zapped.

I hope it works.

cheers Tarwhine