I HAD a desktop that was a 600mHz p3 (coppermine) win2k/Ubuntu machine. recently i got my hands on a better 1.70gHz 500mb DDR ram machine that had no hard drive or graphics card. Basically i just took the graphics card and hard drive out of the 600mHz machine and put them into the newer better hardware setup. Now i know that MS operating systems are chipset specific, that is if i change the intel chipset, i have to re-install the OS, Ubuntu is not so much and boots and runs fine.
The PROBLEM is that when i pop in the windows installer disc, nothing happens, i see a black screen with cursor, then the list of OS to choose. I get no view of the bios and cant configure it to boot to cd. Its driving me nuts as all i WANT to do is to delete the c:/ partition and reinstall windows onto, leaving the other (ubuntu ext3, fat32, and swap partitions) partitions as they are as they work fine on the new/upgraded chipset. What is the easiest way to delete the current MS partition and re-install windows in its place, again, without wiping hte entire hard drive and start the partitioning/hdd formatting process all over again. Thanks to anyone in advance in help of this...
The PROBLEM is that when i pop in the windows installer disc, nothing happens, i see a black screen with cursor, then the list of OS to choose. I get no view of the bios and cant configure it to boot to cd. Its driving me nuts as all i WANT to do is to delete the c:/ partition and reinstall windows onto, leaving the other (ubuntu ext3, fat32, and swap partitions) partitions as they are as they work fine on the new/upgraded chipset. What is the easiest way to delete the current MS partition and re-install windows in its place, again, without wiping hte entire hard drive and start the partitioning/hdd formatting process all over again. Thanks to anyone in advance in help of this...
