Hi, maybe someone can help me here, everytime i turn on this computer it gets to the part where it says "windows did not load correctly on the last attempt" and it gives me choices like safe mode, last known configuration etc.. i've tried all options but just as that white load bar for xp goes across the screen it freezes and nothing happens. then what i did was i pulled out that same hard drive and put it into my other computer and it works perfectly, which leads me to believe it's not the hard drive that's the problem. I removed everything from my old case and left just that hardrive connected to the motherboard and it and it still freezes every time in the same place, please help!

are these two computers identical? same motherboard, etc. if not, you need to do a clean install on the one you're having the problem with. winxp installed on one computer, won't run on another, unless they're identical, because of the drivers that are installed, when xp is setup. chipset, video, sound, modem, etc.

they are 2 different computers, in the first computer win xp wont load, it freezes at the load bar like i was saying and when i put the hard drive in the second computer it does load windows xp fine, it just says i have 3 days to reactivate cause i changed hardware or something but that doesn't matter cause i don't plan on keeping that drive in the other computer. I even tried putting another different hard drive with windows xp in the first pc and it also freezes at the exact same point, i can only assume it's my motherboard thats the problem, but the thing is everything seems to work fine except when it gets to that part to load windows, it's really frustrating :\

hey NICK, you seem to be having pretty good luck. XP was never designed for hot-swapping. You're lucky that XP load still works at all. sorry, bad joke. I've seen this exact problem twice in recent months. One was with Dell Inspirion laptop. Identical problem, and it would not be corrected by anything software related. The laptop was replaced under warranty. THe second was a custom built desktop, and it was being brought down by a faulty motherboard. In both circumstances, not even low-level format/format/reload XP had any effect. It was strictly a hardware error. You pulled everything out of the case and left just the HDD connected to the motherboard? You swap any RAM? I've also seen this with bad video. Onboard video I take it? Or did you watch it fail to boot through the power of the Force (no video card "connected"). again a bad joke. On a serious note: You might want to be careful. Throw enough radical changes at XP and it just might stop working for security/anti-piracy reasons. If you hop from machine to machine with that HDD, you might wind up with no working XP load at all. good luck! aosclay