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Question

I was upgrading my computer but the computer would not boot from the cd. so i took the hard drive out of the computer and insert it into a different pc, installed the os on the hard drive. It worked fine. Then I took the hard drive out of the the computer and put it back in the orginial pc and it does not boot up. I get a blue screen with an error message that says: a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
How can I fix this? How can I get the hard drive to work in the first pc?

Answer 1

When you install Windows, it installs many low-level drivers based on what it finds during Windows setup. The reason you're getting the blue screen is that it's trying to use the drivers for the second computer on the original computer. Unless you want to start playing around with Windows deployment tools such as sysprep (and explaining how to use sysprep is more than I want to type), you should put the hard drive back into the original computer and install windows there. If you can't get the computer to boot from your CD, you can create a set of XP floppy disks which will boot your comptuer into the XP installation process. The instructions on how to do that are here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994

Answer 2

This won't work, you can't install Windows on the second computer and plug the hard drive into the first computer, the only way this would work is if they were identical computers with all the exact same hardware in them.

When you install Windows, it installs many drivers for all of the stuff that's in your computer, video card, sound card, mother board, etc.

When you plugged the drive back into the first computer, Windows was expecting the hardware that it installed drivers for from the second computer and it instead found completely different hardware that it had no idea what to do with, your going to have to find out what's preventing the first computer from booting from the CD.

Answer 3

Generally unless the hardware is pretty much identical between the two PCs, taking a hard drive with the OS from one system to the other will fail. Underlying the operating system is a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) that abstracts the underlying hardware specifics from the operating system. This essentially allows the operating system to install a mostly the same set of files on the hard disk with a small set of specific files for your hardware.

For installing the OS on the first computer, try editing your BIOS settings (depending on the BIOS, it could be pressing , , , or some other key to get into the BIOS configuration page...these are fairly common possibilities) to allow the CD/DVD drive to be in the boot order before your hard disk. This will allow you to boot up off the CD rather than the disk.

Answer 4

sorry man , but u can't do that the operating system must install in the main computer , cuz he has to detect ur monitor , drivers , mouse and ,,,,,, .. so u must have the CD , it sounds like u have problem either in the HD cable , (check that ) nor in the Bios , to check that turn ur computer on and try to read what F key the computer gonna show it to get in the setup (mine F2) click it and get into Bios setup , be sure that the HD and CD enabled , and also check the boot options , be sure it on CD as the first one ... now save that and put the CD try to boot from it ...

Answer 5

That's not a way how to do that, installing it in different computer, because it will install different hardware drivers. It's obvious that it doesn't work. You have to reinstall the windows.
Try set up your bios, there is a setting to boot up from a CD which you have to make before it works.
You can go to your bios by following onscreen instructions just after starting your computer.

Answer 6

OK IT WONT WORK BECAUSE THE HARDWARE TABLES THAT ALLOCATE THE DRIVERS IS CORRUPTED AND DONT MATCH.

THE WAY TO FIX THIS IS TO PUT A WORKING CD DRIVE IN YOUR MACHINE. AND REPAIR THE WINDOWS INSTALLATION WITH THE OPERATING SYSTEM DISK OR TO USE A WINDOWS OEM DISK.

Answer 7

The best way to find the exact specs for your individual computer components would to go to Start-->Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management, and on the left side panel there is an option for device manager. That will show you the devices, there condition, and give you options to update drivers.

Answer 8

is the processor able to handle the OS? u have enough RAM?