hard drive help.

[marq122 via HWKB.com]

I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent
computer. It's not loading in the computer so I went to redo windows and I
get this. The file dmio.sys is corrupted. What does this mean?

If I put the 80 g back in the frist computer it works. If I put the hard
drive 13.60 that was in the other computer to being with it works. Do I need
a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g

 

[Dave]

I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a
diffent
computer. It's not loading in the computer so I went to redo windows and I
get this. The file dmio.sys is corrupted. What does this mean?

If I put the 80 g back in the frist computer it works. If I put the hard
drive 13.60 that was in the other computer to being with it works. Do I
need
a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g

OK, that's hard to follow. But I've seen similar problems caused by bad
RAM. -Dave

 

[marq122 via HWKB.com]

I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a
diffent

[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]

need
a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g

OK, that's hard to follow. But I've seen similar problems caused by bad
RAM. -Dave

I think the ram is good cause it works with a diffent hard drive in it.

 

[Dave]

I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a
diffent

[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]

need
a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g

OK, that's hard to follow. But I've seen similar problems caused by bad
RAM. -Dave

I think the ram is good cause it works with a diffent hard drive in it.

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Invalid assumption. Depending on how the other hard drive is set up, what
kind of cache it has, and several other factors, it's possible that a bad
spot in RAM might not be accessed as frequently with one hard drive. RAM is
laid out like a spreadsheet. It's possible for most of the 'sheet' to look
good, with just one or a few blocks bad, and the system can run fine that
way for a long time, depending on what hardware/os you are running, and how
it is set up.

I'd run memtest86 on the system, with NO hard drive hooked up. (off a
bootable CD-Rom)

If the memory still looks OK, try updating the mainboard BIOS. You
shouldn't be able to access the hard drive at all if it was a BIOS problem
(so you should never get as far as an error message), but I've seen stranger
things happen. -Dave

 

[DaveW]

You CANNOT use a harddrive that has been installed in one computer with XP
loaded to it while using that computer's motherboard, and then move the
harddrive to another computer with a differrent motherboard and expect it to
work. When you change the motherboard that is used with a harddrive that
has XP installed on it then you must reformat and do a fresh install of XP
while connected to the new motherboard.

 

[marq122 via HWKB.com]

You CANNOT use a harddrive that has been installed in one computer with XP
loaded to it while using that computer's motherboard, and then move the
harddrive to another computer with a differrent motherboard and expect it to
work. When you change the motherboard that is used with a harddrive that
has XP installed on it then you must reformat and do a fresh install of XP
while connected to the new motherboard.

I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a
diffent

[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]

need
a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g

That tell me a lot. No wonder I had to reinstall windows a couple of times.
How do I reformat the hard drive?

 

[Rod Speed]

You CANNOT use a harddrive that has been installed in one computer
with XP loaded to it while using that computer's motherboard, and
then move the harddrive to another computer with a differrent
motherboard and expect it to work. When you change the motherboard
that is used with a harddrive that has XP installed on it then you must
reformat and do a fresh install of XP while connected to the new motherboard.

Wrong, a repair install works fine.