Need help booting an INTEL harddrive on a AMD system

[Guest]

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

 

[Dave B.]

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.

 

[R. McCarty]

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.