Hard drive will not load windows in new pc

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Simon

Hi,

I have built a new PC and tried my old hard drive in it. It is running
Windows XP. The computer starts up and does it's test etc. fine, I even get
to the OS choice screen - I have a dual boot with XP (Service Pack 2) and XP
(No Service Packs). Neither will boot up.
XP SP2 flashes a blue screen for a split second, no chance to read, and
reboots the PC.
XP (No Service Packs) takes me to a blue screen with a message saying that
Windows isn't going to load to protect the computer and gives me an error
code:
***STOP: 0x0000007B ( 0xF9E64640, 0x00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
The hard drive is the Primary Master with no other drives installed yet. I
have put the hard drive back in my old PC where it works fine.

Simon
 
Simon said:
Hi,

I have built a new PC and tried my old hard drive in it. It is running
Windows XP. The computer starts up and does it's test etc. fine, I
even get to the OS choice screen - I have a dual boot with XP
(Service Pack 2) and XP (No Service Packs). Neither will boot up.
XP SP2 flashes a blue screen for a split second, no chance to read,
and reboots the PC.
XP (No Service Packs) takes me to a blue screen with a message saying
that Windows isn't going to load to protect the computer and gives me
an error code:
***STOP: 0x0000007B ( 0xF9E64640, 0x00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
The hard drive is the Primary Master with no other drives installed
yet. I have put the hard drive back in my old PC where it works fine.

Simon
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*SIGH* Some people just don't have the common sense they were born with
(although, in your case, you probably weren't even born with any!) Of course
it's not working! You take a hard drive from one computer (with totally
different hardware) and stick it in another computer (with totally different
hardware) and expect it to work - if the licence is OEM (i.e. was sold with
the computer you removed the hard drive from) you cannot use it anyway - the
licence is tied - permanently - to the system it was sold with.

You now need to do one of two things - a format and reinstall (I hope you
backed up your data) or purchase a new full licence.
 
This is most likely not a hardware failure problem, but rather that
XP is not very tolerant of hardware changes. All the drivers
for the mobo are wrong. The chances are that the activation will
fail also.
 
:-(

I thought it was all going a bit too well.

Pen said:
This is most likely not a hardware failure problem, but rather that
XP is not very tolerant of hardware changes. All the drivers
for the mobo are wrong. The chances are that the activation will
fail also.
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*SIGH* Some people just don't have the common sense they were born with
(although, in your case, you probably weren't even born with any!) Of course
it's not working! You take a hard drive from one computer (with totally
different hardware) and stick it in another computer (with totally different
hardware) and expect it to work - if the licence is OEM (i.e. was sold with
the computer you removed the hard drive from) you cannot use it anyway - the
licence is tied - permanently - to the system it was sold with.

You now need to do one of two things - a format and reinstall (I hope you
backed up your data) or purchase a new full licence.
Click to expand...


If it were to work, he could just buy another (same) OEM
license... have two licenses each per the respective machine
and reuse same OS config on both.
 
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