Cannot boot from 2nd Drive with XP installed

[shikhae]

Currently I have a Sata drive with Windows Vista in my computer. I took the drive from my previous computer which is an IDE drive with Windows XP installed. However when I install the 2nd drive and attempt to boot from it I keep getting BSOD's. I heard there was a known issue with Sata and IDE drives, but I can't find that answer anywhere. Is there a fix that makes it possible to be able to boot from either drive whenever I want?

There was a someone with a very similar problem not to long ago, but he fixed it with a reinstall. However I can't reinstall because this drive was taken from an HP computer I bought which came with 5 recovery discs but not the XP install CD.

 

[mechBgon]

Windows does not like being transplanted onto dissimilar hardware like that. It would be like you getting into someone else's car. Whoa my key doesn't even fit in the ignition dude!

However I can't reinstall because this drive was taken from an HP computer I bought which came with 5 recovery discs but not the XP install CD.

If your HP came with an OEM Windows license, then that Windows installation is not transferrable to a new system anyway. OEM licenses gotta stay with the system they were initially installed on, that's why they cost so much less than the retail licenses. On the bright side, they made plenty to go around we're talking hundreds of them. Off to Newegg

 

[cprince]

It seems to me like you are trying to take the IDE drive from your old computer and plug it into your new computer and try to boot from it. If this is what you are trying to do, then you cannot do it. Windows antipiracy mechanism kicks in. This is to prevent people from taking an image of one computer's drive and distribute it to a million other computers. Even without the antipiracy stuff, you would probably not be able to do it due to vastly different hardware/driver issue.

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: cprince
It seems to me like you are trying to take the IDE drive from your old computer and plug it into your new computer and try to boot from it. If this is what you are trying to do, then you cannot do it. Windows antipiracy mechanism kicks in.

There is absolutely no antipiracy mechanism in Windows that would prevent him from booting the drive. The worst that would happen is that Windows Product Activation would reset, requiring re-activation within 3 days.

More likely, his hardware is different and the HAL is incompatible.

 

[shikhae]

I'm getting mixed messages here, but either way it seems that I can't boot from my 2nd hard drive. I guess I'll have to buy XP then. (I'm starting to see why people dislike microsoft).

Thanks for that info though.