Moving Hard Drives in XP

[RaidMan]

OK, I have a Hard drive that was set up for system one with XP loaded. I want to take the hard drive and run it in system two. When I connect it (Jumper settings are correct) it starts the boot up WindowsXP screen then changes to a solid blue screen with a Stop message 00X0000007E(0XC0000005, 0XF9AD3946, 0XF9E817D4, 0XF9E814D4)

Any clues on how to fix? ASR no worky. Original HD was freshly loaded with Win XP in a AMD 1700 processor with Gigabyte board, trying to move the drive to a AMD 750 Processor on a MSI board.

 

[sohcrates]

well, i would put it back in the system it works with, go into device manager, and remove everything under "system devices". this is most everything associated with your motherboard.

also, in the new system, take out all pci cards except for video card


sounds like your hard drive is freaking out when it detects all these major hardware changes....be removing them first, it should be better prepared to handle the move

of course...you're best bet, if this is permanent, would just be to backup your data and re-install XP on the new system

 

[corkyg]

Yeah . . . you should not really move drives to different machines, especially with XP. You apparently so overloaded the hardware hash that it freaked out. Even switching identical drives that are exact clones will cause XP to find new hardware. XP's hardware hash routine is very sensitive.

 

[RaidMan]

I appreciate the response. My original (system 1) motherboard and/or processor took a dump after I got it all set up and files transfered. This is why I had to go back to system 2 and was hoping to not have to reload EVERYTHING!

 

[sohcrates]

<< I appreciate the response. My original (system 1) motherboard and/or processor took a dump after I got it all set up and files transfered. This is why I had to go back to system 2 and was hoping to not have to reload EVERYTHING! >>



well, you might be able to boot up into safe mode in the new system and remove that stuff from device manager there

 

[RaidMan]

Thanks Socrates and Corky. I am unable to repair the installation and don't have a disk made for ASR. My next step is to reload XP. Now, I was told reloading XP would reformat my hard drive, thus losing all my data and previously installed programs. That is scary! Is it true?

 

[sohcrates]

you can reload xp w/out losing everything...just make sure as you go along that you DON'T choose to format at any point (believe me, it'll be obvious if you're about to) and you'll simply be "overlaying" xp over the old copy.

 

[RaidMan]

Thanks agian Sohcrates.... Raidman is taking a leap of faith this evening...I will try it and let you know! Agian, I appreciate yor input!!!!