HD moving - from socketA mobo to P4 mobo, any issues??

[PeeluckyDuckee]

A HD that's been formatted in an AMD socketA motherboard and functioning in there, when switched over to a P4 mobo, will there be issues with the P4 motherboard not recognizing the data that's already in the HD?

Reason why I ask is I once had a HD that I reinstalled OS on an AMD system, and when I brought it over the the Pentium 3 machine the machine wouldn't recognize the data/OS I installed on the HD??

I'm SO out of the loop with these things. Please advise, thanks!

 

[OdiN]

It will recognize the data just fine (assuming not part of some RAID array). However, it will most likely not boot properly to an OS stored on that drive as it references incorrect drivers for the hardware that it is trying to run on. It will try to load the IDE driver for the old AMD motherboard, which won't work on the new P4 mobo....and won't boot. Safe mode may work. As far as just getting data from like a data/backup drive you should have no issues.

 

[Bovinicus]

I recommend a fresh install, but if you don't feel like doing that then you should try it. I migrated from a P3 system to a Thunderbird system with the same HDD and all the changed devices were detected and the system ran properly (Windows 2000). You can boot into safe mode if it doesn't bootup as normal and try to make the necessary device changes there.

 

[MichaelZ]

it won't boot most likely. i've never had a successful board shift without a blue screen of death. and this is from intel board to intel board. from an AMD board to an intel board that OS won't boot for sure.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

Forgot to mention, whether it boots or not from the old HD is irrelevant. What we need is to retrieve the data that's stored on that HD. A new HD will be storing the OS.

 

[Bovinicus]

Originally posted by: PeeluckyDuckee
Forgot to mention, whether it boots or not from the old HD is irrelevant. What we need is to retrieve the data that's stored on that HD. A new HD will be storing the OS.

Then just install the OS on the new HDD. You can switch your old HDD to the slave, or preferrably put it on another IDE channel. Once you get the OS going on the new HDD you can simply copy the data from the old HDD to the new one.