XP Home boot up hangs at progress bar

Hello,
I have a customer who's eMachine MLB crapped out on her. I have a Dell
4600c that I can put the HD into, but it won't go past the progress bar.
I've double/triple checked the BIOS settings and still the OS would not come
up. Since this machine has no floppy, I attempted a 'fixboot' from the
Recovery Console of an xp pro disk, but this did not solve the issue.

I've been wrestling with this for days and can't seem to find a solution.
Did I miss something some where?

thanks in advance,
Wanz

Because the hardware is different, you cannot install a hard drive
taken from a eMachine computer and install it in a Dell computer
and expect it to boot-up.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"thewanz" wrote:


| Hello,
| I have a customer who's eMachine MLB crapped out on her. I have a Dell
| 4600c that I can put the HD into, but it won't go past the progress bar.
| I've double/triple checked the BIOS settings and still the OS would not come
| up. Since this machine has no floppy, I attempted a 'fixboot' from the
| Recovery Console of an xp pro disk, but this did not solve the issue.
|
| I've been wrestling with this for days and can't seem to find a solution.
| Did I miss something some where?
|
| thanks in advance,
| Wanz

Then is it possible to copy the content of the 6 boot disks for XP home onto
a CD-R in order to facilitate a xpHome installation? If that's not possible,
then what about using the file transfer wizard to move her files from her
xpHome drive to a newly installed xpPro HD? Is there any viable solution you
can think of that doesn't involve killing the data from the original HD?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Because the hardware is different, you cannot install a hard drive
> taken from a eMachine computer and install it in a Dell computer
> and expect it to boot-up.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
>
> Enjoy all the benefits of genuine Microsoft software:
> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/default.mspx
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "thewanz" wrote:
>
>
> | Hello,
> | I have a customer who's eMachine MLB crapped out on her. I have a Dell
> | 4600c that I can put the HD into, but it won't go past the progress bar.
> | I've double/triple checked the BIOS settings and still the OS would not come
> | up. Since this machine has no floppy, I attempted a 'fixboot' from the
> | Recovery Console of an xp pro disk, but this did not solve the issue.
> |
> | I've been wrestling with this for days and can't seem to find a solution.
> | Did I miss something some where?
> |
> | thanks in advance,
> | Wanz
>

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:40:02 -0700, thewanz wrote:

>Then is it possible to copy the content of the 6 boot disks for XP home onto
>a CD-R in order to facilitate a xpHome installation? If that's not possible,
>then what about using the file transfer wizard to move her files from her
>xpHome drive to a newly installed xpPro HD? Is there any viable solution you
>can think of that doesn't involve killing the data from the original HD?

A repair installation on the new computer could solve this
problem, but you need a full retail version of Windows to do
that, not an OEM version that may be bound to a particular
computer.

Check the chapter Repair installation of
http://winhlp.com/WxMove.htm for details.

Hans-Georg

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