New Motherboard & CPU but wndows does not boot

[trevcass]

Hey guys,

I need some help here. I have just built myself a new rig. below are the specs.

i7 - 3960x Extreme editon CPU
Gigabyte G1 Assasin 2 Mother Board
Corsair Vengance DDR3 RAM (32BG)
Corsair H80 Water cooler
2x Gigabyte HD graphiccs cards
3x 3TB Western Digital HDD.
1x 1TB Segate Barracudda (From old rig with o/s installed).
Thermaltake Gold 80Plus 1200w PSU

I am using trying to use an old HDD with windows 7 already installed. everytime i try to boot i get back to the recovery options screen. No matter what i do it just comes straight bak to this screen. I am able to enter BIOS and i can see that the system is picking up all 4 HDD's. I can see through the BIOS screen that the CPU temp is 28 degress and eveything has power. I can hear the HDD's spin up.

Is this a hardware identification issue with the OS or is it something more serious. I do not wish to format the drive as i have a lot of important data on it. If formatting is the only option, would it be possible to install windows on one of the other disks and have a dual boot system until i can copy the data from the old HDD.

Cheers

 

[andrewmchugh]

Well the problem is that the drivers that windows needs for you mobo are missing. Will it make it in to safemode?

If you want just plug another HDD and use a ubuntu live usb to copy all the info off your HDD or you can shh then scp it to another machine.

 

[Josh Weston]

Move the data to the WD drives and do a clean install of Windows on your current HDD.
PS - with an amazingly expensive rig such as that, why is there no SSD?!

 

[jamesriley94]

an old hard drive? Windows has to be installed using the same chipset as on the motherboard you're using it on so people cant just distribute copies of windows. So if it's from an older computer you may have to reinstall

 

[trevcass]

Move the data to the WD drives and do a clean install of Windows on your current HDD.
PS - with an amazingly expensive rig such as that, why is there no SSD?!

Thanks for the suggestion. This sounds like the simplest way to do things.
The SSD is on its way. (Being shipped from the US) it is a Corsair Force 240GB.

Perhaps i should wait and when i get the SSD just install the OS fresh then copy the data from the old disk to the new WD's

 

[VengeanceUK]

as james said, you cannot simply move to a new mobo and expect twindows to run as its trying to load all the old mobo drivers, which won't work on the new mobo.
fresh install time methinks, back everything up on the old rig (if it still works), format and start again.

or wait until you have the ssd put windows on there and copy everything you need off the old hdd before formatting the sucka lol

there is a complicated way to circumvent this issue, but it requires the hdd in the old pc, removing all windows drivers then booting it up in the new pc and doing a restore install, but you'll be much, much better doing a fresh install anyday over this method as you have to get EVERY mobo driver uninstalled first before it will work, do it wrong first time and it won't boot on either pc