I have an existing hdd that that will boot up fine in an old comp. but, when i put it in another computer it will not boot up. put it back in the old one and it boots right up. the new computer sees the the drive but it wont boot. it tries to load but then it reboots. Any help would be a big help, Thanks

I am just guessing but it sounds like a hardware issue to me. Not the hard drive but maybe something else. Disconnect everything except you hard drive and see if it will boot. If still no change, go into the BIOS and go to the Periphals section and under Onboard Device start disabling on-board components like LAN, Audio, 1394, RAID, USB, ETC. If it boots with these disabled then you know that one of these components has failed.

Im unable to save to cmos in bios. It will boot and ask for my cd. With my hdd removed.

Things to check:

On the CMOS jumper (right next to the BIOS battery) are pins 1 & 2 jumpered? If not, they should be.

Reseat your memory.

Try a bootable OS like Knoppix. The OS will boot from a CD without the need of a hard drive. If the OS loads, than you can pretty much assume it is software issue that resides on your hard drive. Reload Windows. If the OS does not load, you have a hardware issue. Knoppix is free.

Knoppix Download Link:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/knop...

How to use Knoppix:
http://www.knoppix.net/

'Guessing' for sure

This is expected behaviour given the circumstances - - see this post:

http://www.computing.net/hardware/w...

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I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

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