Is this possible?

[Herrman]

Hi,

Thanks for hosting this forum and thanks to all whose participation makes it work.

I don't know if this can be done. I am currently running xp on an Athlon. I just received a used PC with a Pentium with twice the clock speed of the Athlon.

I took the hard drive out of the athlon, put it in the intel. Bios setup ran with no prob and POST completed normally. Xp would not boot even in safe-mode, got to mup.sys and stopped.

Is there a way to switch to the Intel by just swapping the hard drive?

Thanks

Herrman

 

[Tarrant64]

Welcome to the forums!

I am thinking that you should be able to swap the hard drives and they should work. Especially if it's IDE. I can understand if it was SATA, because maybe you need to load the drivers or something. But other drivers could be an issue as well depending on the kind of system you have. What are the specs of the AMD and Intel systems?

Other than that, I am thinking that it should load. Are you using XP? If so, you will probably have to reactivate it with the switched computers because it will detect a major hardware change.

 

[Blazer]

win xp will not allow this,you will have to reload or may be able to do a repair install

 

[guidot]

You swap those two. You will probably need to reactivate windows. All you need to do it put it back in the AMD system and boot into windows and change your IDE controller to "standard IDE controller." Then shut down, swap drive into new system and it should start reloading all the new drivers. This of course will not be the "best" way to do it (after a backup, reformatting is best). You will notice it to be slow.

 

[Herrman]

Thanks for the reply.

I will try the 'remove hdd' method.

Thanks all, I'll have another inane question soon.

Herrman