UPGRADING PC'S.

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Hi.

I'm hope there's a solution, to this , because I don't want to have to
reformat and reinstall. (this is my last solution) Anyways, I bought a new PC
(AMD 64 3200+, asus k8n) and took my hard drive from my old system (AMD
2200+, asus a7v266) and plugged it into my new system.

I know it was not going to work, but I thought I could "repair" the o/s
without having to start from scratch again. I put the o/s installation disk
in , and hit the 2nd repair option (not the recovery console). Xp, deleted
the o/s and started coping files. It looked promising.

But when rebooting, I get the BSOD (Blue screen of death). I've tried going
into safe mode, and I get a dialog box that says "windows cannot run in safe
mode"

Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,
JG
 
merlin2049er said:
Hi.

I'm hope there's a solution, to this , because I don't want to have to
reformat and reinstall. (this is my last solution) Anyways, I bought a new
PC
(AMD 64 3200+, asus k8n) and took my hard drive from my old system (AMD
2200+, asus a7v266) and plugged it into my new system.

I know it was not going to work, but I thought I could "repair" the o/s
without having to start from scratch again. I put the o/s installation
disk
in , and hit the 2nd repair option (not the recovery console). Xp,
deleted
the o/s and started coping files. It looked promising.

But when rebooting, I get the BSOD (Blue screen of death). I've tried
going
into safe mode, and I get a dialog box that says "windows cannot run in
safe
mode"

Any help would be appreciated.

Sincerely,
JG

The message on the BSOD should give you a hint of what the problem is.
 
I got a "STOP" message with a bunch of memory locations... I'm not sure how
to figure out what caused the BSOD.

I was also thinking of reinstalling windows xp into a different folder, but
then i'd have problems transfering stuff around. It's a nightmare with all
those security settings.
 
merlin2049er said:
I got a "STOP" message with a bunch of memory locations... I'm not
sure how to figure out what caused the BSOD.

I was also thinking of reinstalling windows xp into a different
folder, but then i'd have problems transfering stuff around. It's a
nightmare with all those security settings.


If you paralleled installed, you would have to take ownership of your files
and you would have to reinstall all applications.

As for how to figure out - you Google for the Stop Message.
Post it up here too.
 
Hi,

I got the following;

STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0x00000000, 0xF8940C0, 0xF8947DBC)

I disabled my usb ports and it still crashed on me. I'll try removing my
other pci devices. Or should I give in?

Thanks,
JG
 
Hi.

I got another idea. I was thinking of doing a parallel win xp pro sp2
install. Get that running . Then copy over the device drivers ( i'm
guessing they are in windows system folder, or system 32). Then reboot and
select the old o/s I tried "repairing" from the boot menu. If that works I
can delete the newly installed o/s and get rid of the boot menu configuration.

Has anyone tried that , or is there something in the registry that will
point to an existing driver and go bananas if it's missing?

Thanks,
JG
 

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