It appear that moving one hard drive from one computer to another is not workable if they bear different hard drives. what can be done to make things work please? It's windowXP. Do i just reformat the hard disk using the mother board to which i intend to transfer the mother board? Just what do i do Sir
2007-03-20 09:39:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
When an operating system installs on a hard drive it configures itself to work with the current hardware inside the computer. Therefore, when you move a hard drive with an existing operating system from one computer to another it's not configured to work with that pc. So yes, you'd need to reinstall Windows.
2007-03-20 10:37:25 · answer #1 · answered by lostandhiding 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have done this in the past without too much trouble. What is the problem?
It's possible that the new motherboard is too new for WinXP to detect everything... but I doubt it.
Maybe you have plugged the drive into the wrong IDE/SCSI connector, and the BIOS is not setup to boot from that device?
2007-03-20 09:49:09 · answer #2 · answered by romulusnr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific. setting up the 2nd HD precise on the ribbon cable and insuring that's desperate as a 'slave stress' will, after booting, effect in you in view that stress as one extra HD and you will format it, shop on it and notice what became on it. classes put in on the 2nd HD won't run because of fact the required records on your working gadget registry will in no way be recent. Reinstalling the sport/software into a similar path on the 2nd stress will enable the registry to be as much as date and all records from that software would be recent and obtainable. Sarge
2016-11-27 01:17:10 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the motherboards are different, you will have to re-install your OS. That is the easiest, and most stable way to do it.
2007-03-20 09:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋