XP Home boot up hangs at progress bar

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Hello,
I have a customer who's eMachine MLB crapped out on her. I have a Dell
4600c that I can put the HD into, but it won't go past the progress bar.
I've double/triple checked the BIOS settings and still the OS would not come
up. Since this machine has no floppy, I attempted a 'fixboot' from the
Recovery Console of an xp pro disk, but this did not solve the issue.

I've been wrestling with this for days and can't seem to find a solution.
Did I miss something some where?

thanks in advance,
Wanz
 
Because the hardware is different, you cannot install a hard drive
taken from a eMachine computer and install it in a Dell computer
and expect it to boot-up.

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| Hello,
| I have a customer who's eMachine MLB crapped out on her. I have a Dell
| 4600c that I can put the HD into, but it won't go past the progress bar.
| I've double/triple checked the BIOS settings and still the OS would not come
| up. Since this machine has no floppy, I attempted a 'fixboot' from the
| Recovery Console of an xp pro disk, but this did not solve the issue.
|
| I've been wrestling with this for days and can't seem to find a solution.
| Did I miss something some where?
|
| thanks in advance,
| Wanz
 
Then is it possible to copy the content of the 6 boot disks for XP home onto
a CD-R in order to facilitate a xpHome installation? If that's not possible,
then what about using the file transfer wizard to move her files from her
xpHome drive to a newly installed xpPro HD? Is there any viable solution you
can think of that doesn't involve killing the data from the original HD?
 
Then is it possible to copy the content of the 6 boot disks for XP home onto
a CD-R in order to facilitate a xpHome installation? If that's not possible,
then what about using the file transfer wizard to move her files from her
xpHome drive to a newly installed xpPro HD? Is there any viable solution you
can think of that doesn't involve killing the data from the original HD?
Click to expand...

A repair installation on the new computer could solve this
problem, but you need a full retail version of Windows to do
that, not an OEM version that may be bound to a particular
computer.

Check the chapter Repair installation of
http://winhlp.com/WxMove.htm for details.

Hans-Georg
 
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