Moving hard drive to other computer, XP stops

[JP]

Hello,

I want to move my harddrive with Windows XP Pro to another
computer (I know have a new bigger drive). But when I
install the old drive, and boot up, I get a blue screen
that tells me that Windows has stop to protect my computer.
It then says to check antivirus and to run chkdsk...
But I don't get a prompt to start anything.

Is there something I can do, I want to keep the data on the
drive and not reformat it if possible.
JP

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the old one
(same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.), 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


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[BR]

These hard drives are plug and play compatiable ATA. No
configuration needs to be done. Unless... you want to have
multiple drives "Master" or "Slave" you will need to
change the configuration. Your Bios will do the rest.

I have swapped out hard drives with OS's installed on them
many times and have not had any problems. If you are
considering doing this alot I would consider purchase Hot
swapable bays, inexpensive and are a big time saver.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

How many times have you moved a WinXP installation to a different
motherboard? From your post, I'd judge "Never." Having "plug&pray"
hard drives is *completely* irrelevant. The OS needs to have the
proper HAL and drivers for the specific motherboard.

Bruce Chambers

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