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I have a machine here and the MOBO/CPU is toast. It's running Winxp home. I have installed the hard drive on another machine, but it keeps rebooting. I can run it as a slave fine, but not master. Is there a way so I can delete certain files so that windows dose not restart with blue screen or stop error?. Hardware settings? Where are they. I would like to keep the data if it is possible. Any help for this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Can you not use it as a slave, then transfer your data across, then format and reinstall windows? or even repair it with the cd
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Your best bet would be to back up your data whilst it's a slave, then format the drive & re-install from scratch - cause a lot less hassle in the long run as it's probably MOBO drivers which are causing the conflicts. It's very difficult to cherry pick Windows files.
"I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."
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For our IBM machines, moving the hard drive to another computer would not work unless we used "cable select" - maybe that is a solution. Also I thought XP would request to be re-activated if the hard drive was moved into a computer with different hardware then the one it was originally installed on.
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Thanks for the replies. "or even repair it with the cd" Repair what? The mobo has a cpu built in and is toast. I can use it as a slave, as my post said. I was asking if anyone knew where in the registry or windows directory are the hardware info.
Yes I am backing up as we speak.
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You cannot load xp on one machine and then move it to another machine. XP will only recognize the machine it was installed on.
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There is a method to prepare an XP system drive for transfer from one machine to another but the original machine must be working in order to do so. Since you no longer have that option there are two choices open to you. 1. do as already suggested... format the drive and instal XP fresh. 2. Put the drive in the new machine, bootup using your XP instal CD and do a "Repair" instal.
Since you are already backing up the data you need to keep I recommend the first method. A clean instal will always produce a better outcome.Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.
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I moved my old motherboard out to have a new one that runs ddr ram. All i did was run the recovery console. I lost all my updates but big deal. ET phoned home, downloaded the updates and it runs fine.
All it does is remove the files that made the old system go and reinstalls then configured to the new setup. But it will phone in as this is considered a MAJOR change.I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...
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Just to be a little clearer about mine. I reinstalled the drives and pci cards in the same places as was in the old system.
But in seriousness I think it was a fluke...I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...
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