I put my hard drive in a different pc it has win xp both pcs are dells and windows comes up asks me if i want to start as normal or start using last known good configuration so i tried both and windows loads but then the screen stays black and nothing happens.
I tried singling out the hard ware incase it was a hardware problem.I also tried another hd with xp in it and it does the same. I tried changing the ram for other ram i have which is the same type of ram.
but windows wont load at all.it remains stuck on that blank screen when loading windows.
Please help asap.
2007-10-21 07:49:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The old hard drive is trying to load about a hundred hardware drivers for the wrong computer. You'll have to reload Windows from scratch.
2007-10-21 08:45:03 · answer #1 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
*sigh* windows expects certain hardware to be there and is configured for such. You can't simply take a hard drive out of one computer and use it in another. The motherboard, processor, cd drives, floppy drives, graphics card, monitor are all different even if they are both dell.
2007-10-21 08:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by RandomMan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot take a hard drive that was running in another computer and put it in a different computer and expect it to work, The hard drive and operating system work together and configured them selfs to the computer they were in to match the bios and other hardware . Just to make it simple it will not work
2007-10-21 08:01:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not going to boot into Windows when the drivers on your hard drive are for the chipsets on the old motherboard. You need to reinstall windows.
2007-10-21 08:03:17 · answer #4 · answered by s j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maximum in all probability it relatively is no longer booting from the installation disk. attempt to open the BIOS and notice if the cdrom is the 1st device interior the boot sequence, if no longer do it. Then save bios and go out. Now next time in case you restart your workstation you need to make certain an alert on the exhibit to "Press any key as nicely from the disk" and after doing so , you're able to start up the installation technique
2016-10-07 08:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋