Moving hard drive to new computer

[ride525]

My old computer is a Duron 600 on a Abit Kt7 motherboard.

I just built a AMD XP 2800+ on a ECS N2U400 motherboard.

I moved my hard drive over to the new computer, but Windows 2000 won't boot all the way....goes to the Windows 2000 startup screen, then get a blue screen, that suggests a virus, or a new install, or something like that....move hard drive back to old computer, no problems....

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Jeff

 

[DaTT]

It has something to do with the fact that you already have windows installed and its "married" to your chipset. What your doing is not recommended, start fresh. If you don't want to start fresh, I have never tried this, but try uninstalling everything in your device manager. I doubt it will work, but its worth a try.....I guess.

 

[ride525]

I might try installing windows over itself...I've done that also in the past...although not over a motherboard change

 

[PowerEngineer]

Okay, I'm paranoid. But I always like to do a fresh install of the operating system on a reformated disk when starting up a new system. I'd spring a few bucks for a second hard drive, install it as primary in the new PC, and do a clean install of W2K on it. You can then add your existing harddrive to the new PC and access your old data. Of course, you'd have to reinstall all your applications.

Good luck

 

[Wik]

Put the Hard Drive back in your other system and unistall the chipset. You can usually get by with just removing the Main IDE controller

 

[ride525]

Similar to Wik's suggestion, I used this link that someone on another forum suggested, worked like a charm:

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[dclive]

Originally posted by: ride525
My old computer is a Duron 600 on a Abit Kt7 motherboard.

I just built a AMD XP 2800+ on a ECS N2U400 motherboard.

I moved my hard drive over to the new computer, but Windows 2000 won't boot all the way....goes to the Windows 2000 startup screen, then get a blue screen, that suggests a virus, or a new install, or something like that....move hard drive back to old computer, no problems....

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Jeff

Win2k won't boot on new hardware for two reasons: wrong IDE/SCSI controller, or wrong HAL. Most consumer machines nowadays use one HAL, so that's not as much of an issue. Typically just setting the old machine's IDE controller to the standard one built into Windows will resolve the issue.