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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 2206388" data-attributes="member: 945">Long story short, my PC got blasted by a power surge, and apparently fried my motherboard.  So, I bought a new one (and upgraded the CPU a little, too) and came home and removed my old motherboard, disconnected all the peripherals, and put the new m/b in.I booted up, and everything seemed ok.  It checked the RAM, and then attempted to boot, and despite my best efforts, the bootup just ain't happening.  When it boots, it pulls up a screen that informs me that Windows didn't close gracefully, and gives me some options like boot to Windows w/command line, boot normally, boot from last best configuration, safe mode, etc.  None of them work.  I get a BSOD on all of them.I configured the BIOS to boot from CD, and loaded an XP CD, and got it to boot into XP, and it gave me a repair option, which I chose.Currently, my computer is doing a chkdsk, and it's going on 2 hours at this point, and is about 70% complete.  No idea why it's taking so long.Anyway, if I go into the Repair option, it sends me to C: (after I choose that option), and I can see all my stuff.  Well, I can see everything in C:\windows and in the root drive, but I can't go anywhere, which is frustrating. I ran some command (fixboot, I think) that said it appeared that my MBR (master boot record) was non-existent or corrupt, which I suppose could be a possibility.  I DID NOT create a new one, as it said that it could wipe out the partition, and I know that that has the potential of being very, very bad. Especially if I want to ever recover anything off this disk again.So I'm looking for advice.  Assuming the chkdsk /p thing that I'm running now doesn't fix the problem, can I safely repair the MBR and recover everything on the drive?I tried booting off another hard drive.  The windows 98 logo came up (it's an older drive), and then went nowhere... but I might try that again, as I had a theory that maybe the EIDE ribbon was maybe a little bad. So I could try that again with this new ribbon I have on there now.Other option is to take it back to the store where I bought the motherboard, crying a little bit, and throwing lots of cash at the problem to have them fix it for me.</blockquote>

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