I bought a computer from my friend that's missing a hard drive, so i put in my 20 gig hard drive from an emachine which had the emachine form of windows i guess? Anyways the hard drive works in the orginal emachine but when i move it over to the new computer it flakes out and wont load. I get the list of five options; safe mode, safe mode command, safe mode networking, last settings that worked, start windows normaly. Anyone of thoughs i pick it goes to the blue screen of death. I put the hard drive back into the orginal emachine computer where it came from and installed a windows xp home edition that doesnt have all that emachine freeware and stuff on it but yet when i plug it in to the new computer its still not starting. O ya, i know the jumpers are right because it works on the other computer, the new computer also does read the hard drive to some extent because in bios it shows the serial # and how many gigs are left, and i also tried changing the ide cable with no sucess.
2007-09-14 21:59:14 · 4 answers · asked by Joe 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Also, in the orginal question i include the fact that i put the harddrive back in to the old emachine computer where it came from installed a CLEAN version of windows xp and put the hardrive back onto the new computer yet no results... i'm thinking about just buyiing a new hard drive? good idea?
2007-09-14 22:38:33 · update #1
You need all the drivers loaded for the motherboard in the new computer. Windows is trying to load the emachine drivers as installed on the hard disk. It's best to try and reinstall XP in the new system or do your research and change all the drivers by hand
You didn't install a clean version of XP. There is no such thing. It always installs the drivers for the machine it is on. You have to have the drivers for the new machine installed. The only time it comes up without drivers is in safe mode so you can fix driver problems..
2007-09-14 22:08:16 · answer #1 · answered by C V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The XP disk is an OEM version that only runs on the Emachines hardware. It won't run on any other hardware.
Buy and XP Upgrade and install on the new PC, then install the motherboard drivers.
2007-09-15 05:05:56 · answer #2 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to re-install windows. it doesnt like that there are so many changes to the hardware. non of the drivers will work.
2007-09-15 05:06:22 · answer #3 · answered by Beandip408 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-09-19 01:35:26 · answer #4 · answered by gfryew 9 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋