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I have a newer computer that i want to move my old drive into.
i am moving from a PIII to a PIV and only want to move the drive, it is an
80GB, good for me. I know that the drive is causing me an error message on
the boot, I get a quick blue screen and then automatic reboot. I'm sure this
is due to the new hardware and Win XP verifyinf the system. How can I get
this to work?
 
I had that same ting happen to me i had to reformatt my hard drive and reboot
my windows xp pro. disk on it to pick it up. after you put your hard drive in
your computer try putting in your windows disk and see if it will reformat
yourhard drive if not you will have to put it back in your old computer and
reformat it that way and then load your disk on it.
 
pccdude said:
I have a newer computer that i want to move my old drive into.
i am moving from a PIII to a PIV and only want to move the drive, it is an
80GB, good for me. I know that the drive is causing me an error message on
the boot, I get a quick blue screen and then automatic reboot. I'm sure
this is due to the new hardware and Win XP verifyinf the system. How can I
get this to work?
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At the very least, you'll need to do a Repair Install. If the Repair Install
doesn't work, then do a Clean Install. You also need to install the drivers
for the hardware in the new machine, including the motherboard. Make sure
your data is backed up first.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - Repair Install
How-To
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows - What
you will need on-hand

Malke
 
You appear to be trying to start a new computer - no disk, windows XP not
installed, with the system drive from another computer. Unless the two
machines are nearly identical you CANNOT DO IT without first preparing the
old disk in the old computer.

If you do not want to buy the software to do this, then try the solution
that Malke suggests, it sometimes works well often does not. A more complex
treatment is suggested in

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

In my experience neither route is safe. You are likely to spend a lot of
time and still be left with a buggy system.

A safer way his would be to buy a copy of Acronis True Image Home vs. 10
with Universal Restore. After installing Acronis create the Acronis secure
zone and then backup your existing system to an image in the secure zone.
Create use Acronis to create a bootable recovery CD from which to boot your
PC when you have put the disk in it (full instructions in the Acronis Help
File)
The advantage of this route is that if the raw installs fails you still have
the Acronis Image of your old disk available. with all your data available
for recovery, in the secure zone.

Nonetheless, if the computer is doing important work it would in the long
run be BETTER to backup your data and to a clean install of Windows XP onto
the old disk.

John
 
I had that same ting happen to me i had to reformatt my hard drive and
reboot
my windows xp pro. disk on it to pick it up. after you put your hard drive
in
your computer try putting in your windows disk and see if it will reformat
yourhard drive if not you will have to put it back in your old computer
and
reformat it that way and then load your disk on it.
Click to expand...

Many times a repair install will work. If not then do a clean install, but
try the repair first.
 
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