be4con

Sorry for the long delay, I've been away on holiday. Thanks again for the advice.

I ran FIXBOOT C: and recovery console claimed to have rewritten the boot sector. However, on rebooting I get the same Disk Boot Failure message. I can still boot with the XP disk in the drive.

I have also tried to use the Medion pc recovery software to reinstall the factory default settings and XP but the process failed. I attempted it twice, it went through all the correct steps, but then when I rebooted nothing had changed at all. I'm assuming this is because of the different motherboard preventing the recovery progressing

I'm considering just reinstalling XP, unless anyone has any other solutions at this stage. The pc silencer kit arrived this week from Germany and I have my new SATA DVD drive arriving on Friday so I'd like to put an end to all this if I can and get all the hardware and software sorted this week. My wife would like the pc out of the dining room and me off her laptop! :)