Need help with new system!

[DnDComputers]

Ok.. First I am not sure if this is where this belong so if not then MODS please feel free to move it to the correct place.

Ok.. I got a PC from a friend of mine. He put everything together and shipped it to me. He said that when he shipped it everything was conected and installed secure. When I got it from UPS the Heat sink/fan were flopping everywhere and the HDD was also being thrown around. I already started a claim with UPS.

Now here is the problem... I put everything back in its place where they go and secured them. I went to boot up the machine and it seems like the HDD is hanging. So I put another older HDD of mine in it and loaded Windows XP Pro and it worked fine!
When the system boots I go and boot it into safe mode with comand prompt and at the time that is hangs it stops at the command ending with system32/drivers/Mup.sys

My question is can I fix this without Formating the HDD? It is a already registered version of Windows XP and Office and other software that he installed for me that I dont wnat to loose. Or is the HDD toast. How do I fix this?

Please help me with this!!!!

 

[jebo_4jc]

Windows does not like to run on a new motherboard/cpu. I think you will need to re-install windows, unfortunately.

 

[PWMK2]

You can always try do a repair install of Windows, but most likely the HDD is toast.