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WinXP hard drive put into different box

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Purple Haze, 2011/04/11.

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    I have a system running Pent 4, 3.2 GHZ with 2 GB RAM, Win7 Pro. My wife has a system running Pent 4, 2.4 GHz with 1 GB RAM, WinXP/SP3. Allare home-built. I thought it might be good to pull the hard drive from my system and replace it with the one from hers to give her more speed, RAM, etc the *easy* way. Everything looked fine - jumpers, BIOS settings and recognition, etc, but Windows would NOT boot. It kept going to sleep, then coming back with the verbiage about booting from Safe Mode, etc. Never would boot. I have some suspicions as to possibly why, but I'd like someone with more experience to offer up some suggestions as to why. TIA!
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    Are you familar with the term DRIVERS;) As in the drive is full of the wrong ones...

    A repair install of Windows should maybe possibly fix it.
     
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    Steve, that part did Not cross my mind but I guess it makes sense. What I'd Really like to do is transfer all her documents and such to my system, then give it to her to use Win7 and Office 2010, etc (yes, I have another system as well to use). Then maybe reformat the old XP drive and use for something else.
     
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    Copy the data to the win 7 system, swapping the drives will only lead to a massive headache and reinstalling whichever windows on the other system may be in breach of the EULA leaving you with no working computer.
     
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