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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Setup and Deployment / January 2008change hard drive to one with XP pre-installed
Hello. Does someone know a workaround for this? The hard drive containing the OS in my computer has failed - it is dead, the BIOS does not see it at all. From another computer, I have taken the hard drive which has XP Pro SP2 (fully legal and activated) on it and put it into my main computer. After the BIOS loads, Win XP tries to start but before anything happens it just drops and the computer restarts. There is a very brief flash of a blue screen but it disappears too quickly to see what it says. Clearly XP is recognising that the hardware is different but would that stop the OS loading? The other factor is that the hard drive has Norton Go Back on it but I have just let that load the latest configuration. What I want to achieve is to use this installation of XP to be the OS without having to completely reinstall it. There are lots of programs and documents on this hard drive that I wish to continue using. Any suggestions? John Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html  SignatureCarey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User --------------------------------------------------------------- Hello. Does someone know a workaround for this? The hard drive containing the OS in my computer has failed - it is dead, the BIOS does not see it at all. From another computer, I have taken the hard drive which has XP Pro SP2 (fully legal and activated) on it and put it into my main computer. After the BIOS loads, Win XP tries to start but before anything happens it just drops and the computer restarts. There is a very brief flash of a blue screen but it disappears too quickly to see what it says. Clearly XP is recognising that the hardware is different but would that stop the OS loading? The other factor is that the hard drive has Norton Go Back on it but I have just let that load the latest configuration. What I want to achieve is to use this installation of XP to be the OS without having to completely reinstall it. There are lots of programs and documents on this hard drive that I wish to continue using. Any suggestions? John Thank you very much for both replies. Most helpful. John > Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed > http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > John A repair installation of winxp and install the correct drivers. And that assumes the win installation is not an OEM thats is locked to the origonal PC > Hello. Does someone know a workaround for this? The hard drive > containing [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > John My thanks also covered your reponse - most helpful. John > A repair installation of winxp and install the correct drivers. > And that assumes the win installation is not an OEM thats is locked to the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > > > John |
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