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Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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Name: nickjuly4
Date: August 26, 2006 at 22:04:56 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk
OS: Windows ME
CPU/Ram: 128 MB
Model/Manufacturer: HP Pavilion 7855

Comment:

I have two computers one with windows me and the other one with windows xp home. I just got a new hard drive on my windows xp computer and I re-installed windows xp on it and I put my old hard drive in my windows me computer as the slave hard drive and ever time I try to boot windows xp on my windows me computer either by going into the BIOS and making my old windows xp hard drive boot first or by using a floppy disk with windows xp boot manager on it it just says that there was a error the last time I started windows and it says that I should start windows in safe mode and when I choose boot windows normally it just freezes up and even when I picked boot windows from safe mode it just shows the driver as normal then freezes again. Is there a way to make windows xp boot without formatting any of my hard drives and without re-installing windows xp on my old windows xp hard drive?

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Response Number 1

Name: Ed in Texas.
Date: August 27, 2006 at 00:21:18 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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nickjuly4, suspect your difficulty stems more from imperfect procedure than hardware problems. OS's don't like one another and don't play well together. Think you need to be doing a true 'dual boot'(in which seperate partitions are involved).
HTH.
Ed in Texas.

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Response Number 2

Name: trvlr
Date: August 27, 2006 at 00:51:39 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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In your case too if hoping to use a single copy of XP on two systems isn't exactly leagal in M$-terms... which is not to say it can't be done...
In terms of moving an XP installation from one physical system to another, it will not work; hardware etc. is different...
Typically one runs a repair routine to enable this "new" system to run the installation; and there are occasions when this won't work...

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Response Number 3

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 27, 2006 at 01:13:39 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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You can NOT transplant an installed windows HD and have it work.

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Response Number 4

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 28, 2006 at 05:08:46 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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I got to the fourth line and quit reading when I ran outta breath.
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

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Response Number 5

Name: trvlr
Date: August 28, 2006 at 05:30:52 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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oh dear Jeffiner...
Sadly you appear to have failed your advanced test in deciphering posts... The lack (frequently total absence) of punctuation etc. is the really hard one to pass... I really did think you pass that one...? Possibly it's the additional hidden test - questionable syntax (as opposed to sin-tax...) - that knocked you orf course...

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Response Number 6

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: August 28, 2006 at 06:29:33 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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trv, you know I love ya. :) (And shouldn't that be psintax?)
Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

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Response Number 7

Name: trvlr
Date: August 28, 2006 at 07:09:48 Pacific
Subject: Adding a Windows XP hard disk

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even psyntacks...?

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