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Question

old computer went bad,put in a hd that was working on another computer, old computer wont boot up ? do u think, hd, motherboard?

Answer 1

U have install the drivers for the hardware that u have.

Answer 2

Could be a compatibility issue with the drive. It may have been formated or partitioned in format the old motherboard does not understand. Of cource it could be the motherboard, but I would verify that the drive is compatable with the m/b.

Remeber that only newer m/b can accept the NTFS partition, whereas older motherboard accept the fat or fat32 system. I would try and find a hard drive from the same timeframe as the computer.

If your looking to recover data on the drive that you can no longer access, you could try connecting it to a new computer and copy your data to the new computers drive. Newer motherboard are compatable with NTFS and fat or fat32.

The older bios had hard drive size limits(some were 1.99mb). If the drive you are attempting to use is larger than the bios limits, the computer will not see the drive until you partition and format it to the bios limitations. You may loose a lot of drive space depending on the size of the drive.

Drivers are not an issue when it comes to the bios seeing the hard drive. The CMOS setup is where the drive paramiters are kept and that loads on boot up, long before windows loads with its device drivers.

Answer 3

Yes, it definitely sounds like the motherboard. That can be expensive but you can build a brand new computer from there and nice one at that, or you can buy a new computer. Your choice.

Answer 4

motherboard, check if it supports the HD. Can be bios or driver issue.

Answer 5

Obviously its the M/B as you said that the HDD is working on the other computer. Check the HDD with a third computer if it works fine then FOR SURE its the M/B.