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Windows doesn't boot

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ensngre

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I've recently upgraded parts of my older system to an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 with a Asus P5W DH Deluxe, two new RAMs and a graphics card. They're all compatible with each other, and I haven't overclocked anything. Yet.

I saved two HDDs from my older system; one of them a Western Digital Raptor. My system disk. On the WD Raptor, I have an installed version of Windows XP Professional, and it worked flawlessly on my earlier system.

I connected the WD Raptor to the SATA1 connector, and powered it up. It didn't work. What I got was four options to start Windows; one of them in Safe mode, another in Normal mode. I tried both, and they didn't work. With Safe mode it rebooted the system directly after I pushed enter, and with the Normal mode, the screen showed the loading window of Windows XP for half a second, and then it rebooted too.

I've tried several options in BIOS with no success. BIOS does detect the device, and there's nothing wrong with the sectors, because it still works on my old system.

I honestly have no idea what to do. Any help is greatly appriciated.
 
If you are saying what I think you are, you installed your old hard drives on your new system, one of which had windows on it. If that is the case, you will need to reinstall windows. It should be done when you do a motherboard change or you could get issues like you are seeing.
 
Originally posted by: dph1077
If you are saying what I think you are, you installed your old hard drives on your new system, one of which had windows on it. If that is the case, you will need to reinstall windows. It should be done when you do a motherboard change or you could get issues like you are seeing.
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Seconded. You need to reinstall windows when you do something so drastic. I'd suggest booting the pc off of a Knoppix cd so that you can back up all of your files on your drive that has windows on it currently so that you can wipe it clean when you go to reformat it.
 
When I get a new computer, I create a Ghost image of my old computer's HD. Then, do a fresh install on the new computer. I then use Ghost explorer to pull files off the old hard drive as needed. When I am done, I just delete it.
 
Thanks, everyone. It worked out. I thought of doing that, but I'm lazy and alas, never tried it. Stupid of me. Anyway, thanks. 🙂
 
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