WinXP boot problem should be simple but has me stumped!!!!!

[kellycomputer]

Okay, I moved a client's hard drive from an old computer to a
newer one I had around. Tried to boot it but past the bios it just
gave me a blinking cursor. Tried a recovery console fixboot/fix mbr,
still nothing. Started a repair install, when it restarted to
continue, still the blinking cursor. Made a boot disk with a boot.ini
ntdetect, etc. and it booted back into the install and finished,
rebooted still the blinking cursor. Used the boot disk and it loads
into Windows fine. Checked to make sure the partition was active.
Checked the boot.ini, etc., everything fine. Reboot and without the
boot floppy in, still the blinking cursor!! Has anybody got any ideas
on this? Boots fine with the floppy but not without! -Kelly

 

[Tech Support]

copy the floppy to the root of the c: drive

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Okay, I moved a client's hard drive from an old computer to a
newer one I had around. Tried to boot it but past the bios it just
gave me a blinking cursor. Tried a recovery console fixboot/fix mbr,
still nothing. Started a repair install, when it restarted to
continue, still the blinking cursor. Made a boot disk with a boot.ini
ntdetect, etc. and it booted back into the install and finished,
rebooted still the blinking cursor. Used the boot disk and it loads
into Windows fine. Checked to make sure the partition was active.
Checked the boot.ini, etc., everything fine. Reboot and without the
boot floppy in, still the blinking cursor!! Has anybody got any ideas
on this? Boots fine with the floppy but not without! -Kelly

Use your WinXP CD to boot the machine into Recovery
Console, then run these commands:
fixboot
fixmbr

By the way, you are very, very lucky that Windows runs
at all. Moving a hard disk from one machine to another is
in most cases a recipe for disaster.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

By the way, you are very, very lucky that Windows runs
at all. Moving a hard disk from one machine to another is
in most cases a recipe for disaster.

Couldn't prove it by me: Pulled my drive from my 6-year-old machine
and put it into a newly-built machine just a few months ago... repair
install and all was fine.

 

[Rock]

Okay, I moved a client's hard drive from an old computer to a
newer one I had around. Tried to boot it but past the bios it just
gave me a blinking cursor. Tried a recovery console fixboot/fix mbr,
still nothing. Started a repair install, when it restarted to
continue, still the blinking cursor. Made a boot disk with a boot.ini
ntdetect, etc. and it booted back into the install and finished,
rebooted still the blinking cursor. Used the boot disk and it loads
into Windows fine. Checked to make sure the partition was active.
Checked the boot.ini, etc., everything fine. Reboot and without the
boot floppy in, still the blinking cursor!! Has anybody got any ideas
on this? Boots fine with the floppy but not without! -Kelly

Sometimes moving a drive to a new computer will work by itself, sometimes a
repair install is needed, and sometimes that won't work and you need to do a
clean install.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Sometimes moving a drive to a new computer will work by itself,
sometimes a repair install is needed, and sometimes that won't
work and you need to do a clean install.

There's something to be said for covering one's bases I guess.

IMO opinion such a post is wasted. It said nothing.

 

[Rock]

There's something to be said for covering one's bases I guess.

IMO opinion such a post is wasted. It said nothing.

Well I must say you are the expert in making posts that are of absolutely no
value.

 

[mikeyhsd]

be careful Uncle Grumpy our own personal Net Nanny might virtually spank you.



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Sometimes moving a drive to a new computer will work by itself,
sometimes a repair install is needed, and sometimes that won't
work and you need to do a clean install.

There's something to be said for covering one's bases I guess.

IMO opinion such a post is wasted. It said nothing.