I have an old system with windows 2000 on it that runs my business. All of my other computers is also Windows 2000. I bought a new computer with Windows Vista on it but do not want it. I want to put my Windows 2000 drive in the new machine but it will not boot when i do? Tells me that it is an Unbootable Device? Why? It will boot fine on the old system, just not on the new one. I cloned the drive to a new drive also and get the same error when trying to boot it? Can anyone please help? Thanks!
2007-02-20 23:50:54 · 4 answers · asked by Collector 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
When you install Windows 2000 from the original cd, it installs drivers for the hardware in the computer in which it is being installed. If you have the original Windows 2000 cd, you should be able to install it on the new computer. If you don't you can buy a used CD quite cheaply.
It would be nice if you could just take a drive with operating system and applications out of one machine and install it in another, but you usually cannot.
2007-02-21 00:17:44 · answer #1 · answered by John W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While mentioning about the system architecture u missed out the configuration of the systems u r considering. do the win 2000 system's config match with the win Vista system. You have wrote that the operating system in both r different.
One of the cause for the error is that the system with win 2000 have a different configuration than the windows vista machine. This can be explained as follows:
while windows 2000 was loaded into the previous systems they have installed different drivers for the PC architecture in it. And since now u r using that drive with the drivers for the old system to boot the new system it cannot find the proper hardwares and also the boot sector. So the system is returning the error
Another reason can be that the File system in both may be different. One may be using FAT partitioning while the other an NTFS partition.
regards.
2007-02-21 00:01:23 · answer #2 · answered by KD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't take an old drive with an already registered copy of windows and put it in a brand new computer. There are a ton of problems with this, ranging from incompatibility due to age to DRM violation.
What you are going to have to do if you really want 2000 on your machine (which I seriously don't recomend- Windows 2000 was known as one of the absolute worst versions of Windows ever to come out) you are going to have to buy another copy from Microsoft. I know, its extortion and its $200 more of your money down the tube, but that's how the jerk Bill Gates rolls.
Personally, I recomend you switch all your systems to linux, but since your business is already configured for windows I doubt you will do that.
2007-02-20 23:56:19 · answer #3 · answered by Chip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BUY A MAC!!!
2007-02-21 00:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by Tasos I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋