Moving hard drive from old to new computer

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I am building a new computer and going to use my current HD but when I move
my hd to the new computer it won't finish booting and restarts. It gets to
the black screen with the blue line going across then reboots. I move the hd
back to my old comp. and it works fine.

Going from a P4 to an AMD.

HELP....

Thanks
Rod
 
Generally, this type of action will always result in failure. Backup what you can't afford to lose and do a clean installation on the new machine. Short of that, you'll need to do a repair install.

Repair the Windows XP Installation

Configure your computer to start from the CD-ROM drive. For more information about how to do this, please refer to your computer's documentation or contact your computer manufacturer.

Remove any floppy disks and ZIP disks from their respective drives. Insert your Windows XP compact disc (CD) into your CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer.

(You can also boot with a Windows 98/Me Startup disk with CD support and run WINNT.EXE in the I386 folder on the CD)

When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message is displayed on your screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.

When you see the following message displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER:
To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.

At this point an option to press R to enter the Recovery Console is displayed. Do not select this option.

On the Windows XP Licensing Agreement screen, press F8 to agree to the license agreement.

Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the box, and then press the R key to repair Windows XP.

Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
 
When I try to boot with my XP cd I go through the start but after I hit enter
it tells me that my drive is not formatted and do I want to format. I don't
get the Repair option, just the recovery consel. I have it as c: d: (250gig)
and it shows it to be one drive at 250. I don't want to change any of that
but just install it in the new comp. as I have LOTS of programs on it and
would take days, weeks to replace them all.

Thanks

Rod
 
rod said:
I am building a new computer and going to use my current HD but when I move
my hd to the new computer it won't finish booting and restarts. It gets to
the black screen with the blue line going across then reboots. I move the hd
back to my old comp. and it works fine.

Going from a P4 to an AMD.

HELP....

Thanks
Rod
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Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific chipset and therefore *not*
transferable to a new motherboard - check yours before starting), unless
the new motherboard is virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE
controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the one on which the WinXP
installation was originally performed, you'll need to perform a repair
(a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with WinXP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

The "why" is quite simple, really, and has nothing to do with
licensing issues, per se; it's a purely technical matter, at this point.
You've pulled the proverbial hardware rug out from under the OS. (If
you don't like -- or get -- the rug analogy, think of it as picking up a
Cape Cod style home and then setting it down onto a Ranch style
foundation. It just isn't going to fit.) WinXP, like Win2K before it,
is not nearly as "promiscuous" as Win9x when it comes to accepting any
old hardware configuration you throw at it. On installation it
"tailors" itself to the specific hardware found. This is one of the
reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP OS family is so much more stable
than the Win9x group.

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will also probably require re-activation, unless you have a
Volume Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. If it's been more than
120 days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most
likely be able to activate via the Internet without problem. If it's
been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call.


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