Help needed with upgrade please!

[twoodster]

Had my bits I ordered from Overclockers earlier:

Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P AMD 790X (Socket AM3/AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P AMD 790X (Socket AM3/AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail

I had an Intel e6600 and ASRock Conroe XFire ESATA2 prior to this. Anyway I've chucked everything in and now I can't boot into windows. Says its unable to load the operating system. My hard disc is a 250gig Maxtor 6L250S0 according to the bios. I know it needs replacing but can't really afford to right now. Any ideas what the problem could be? I'm running Windows XP - I'd rather not have to format if at all possible!

 

[twoodster]

Anyone? I'm guessing Windows just doesn't like new hardware out of the blue - but there must be an alternative to formatting? I really can't be bothered to unplug everything, and plug all the old stuff back in so I can back it up! Hehe

Edit: never mind. Formatted. Cheerio 3 gig of photographs