Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter

i had a hdd failure recently, i went on ebay and bought the same hdd, took the printboard off the new hdd and put it on my failed drive and got up and running again.

since we are having this talk, my secondary pc is giving me a signal saying it cannot find config.sys and to load the xp disc and run repair. i did this several times and all it does is get me on to the c drive with a dos prompt, not win xp op system.. any suggestions ? if i re-install xp will i loose the data on the hdd ??