Hi everybody,

Sorry to undig this old thread but I encounter just the same problem
after changing my motherboard/processing unit (+ I changed from AMD to
intel). The shop tech I bought my material from installed this :

- new Gigabyte motherboard+ Q6600 quad core
- existing IDE hard drive on which XP is installed (or rather was
before I changed the MB). According to the BIOS it is set on Master
- existing DVD IDE drive set on Slave
- existing SATA drive (for data)

I knew that by changing type of motherboard I would have to reinstall
Windows but it keeps failing. The installation from the XP CD goes on
well until the system has to reboot from hard drive.... and VLAM ! the
fatal error ""could not find ntoskrnl,etc"comes back. I know it is not
material failure because I have booted from UBCD for a change and have
achieved a check disk on each drive with no error detected.
I have followed the messages in the thread with much attention and
indeed I have noticed that the boot order in the BIOS is set for the
SATA drive first. The pb is if I changed the order I get a nice "disk
error" at boot. So I have no clue. If anyone could help... many thanks
in advance.