[jhoh]

Hi, I just got a new mother board to replace my fried one and its a
BIOSTAR NF325-A7 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250 ATX AMD Motherboard
Now when i turn on the computer to install windows, this message pops up and i cant do anything else. I am a newb so please understand

the message is follows..
TLDR:couldn't open drive multi(0) disk(0) rdisk(0) partition (1)
TLDR:couldn't open drive multi(0) disk(0) rdisk(0) partition (1)

[TheOutcaste]

That was probably NTLDR, not TLDR. The system is starting to boot, but can't find the boot partition where it expects it to be. My first guess is you have two hard drives, and they were on different controllers and when installing the new board your boot drive got connected to the Secondary controller instead of the Primary, so double check your cabling.

If that's not the case, you may need to reset the BIOS to Optimized Defaults.

I don't know if you were planning a clean install of windows, or were hoping to do a repair install, but if the latter This article may be of interest.

Good Luck

[ZeRealBigBoss]

To me it looks like that both drives are configured as masters on the same channel; this is a BIOS message when it fails to read the disk ID. If it would have found the ID and not found the boot sector, it would ask for a system disk after going through the BIOS routine. Connect one disk to channel 0 and the other one to channel 1. Check also whether your master/slave jumper settings agree with the cable select position (grey/black connectors). And better do a clean install, because taking Windows from one machine to an other is asking for problems. Now what do I say? Using Windows is asking for problems, period. :-)