Launching OS from different motherboard (was recovering secure data for client)

From: Marcus (anyone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:34:19 GMT

Greetings,

Thank you for the response to my earlier topic. I received the 'box'
from the client the other day, but with the hard drive removed and
packed separately. I reinstalled the HD (physically) and attempted to
boot the system, but I get no POST messages from the BIOS, keyboard or
HDD detection, nothing. It appears as though the motherboard itself or
the BIOS is bad.

My question is this: Can I boot the original drive and file system
from a different configuration (i.e. motherboard and BIOS)? If I make
this attempt would I corrupt the file system? Perhaps I could boot
with rescue CD (like knoppix) and change the config files first.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

David

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