Need help booting an INTEL harddrive on a AMD system

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I have a laptop H/D created on an INTEL 32 bit system and would now like to
use it on an AMD 64 bit laptop. The OS is Windows XP Pro. I get as far as the
Windows LOGO screen and it continually tries to re-boot itsself. Any solution
for this problem
 
The problem is that the motherboard chipset (and more importantly, the hard
drive controller) have changed, that is why it's rebooting. You will need to
perform a repair install with the XP CD to get it working again.
 
A "Repair" install is called for. XP cannot fully boot because it's
calling an Intel Chipset based Mass Storage driver ( IDE ) and
it's running on an AMD platform with a non-Intel Chipset such as
VIA or nVidia. When trying this type of operation, the only way
to bypass a Repair install is to change the vendor specific drivers
to a "Generic" type before changing motherboard types. This isn't
a good solution as the Device Manager table will be miss-matched
and you'll end up with lots of "Phantom" devices.
 
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