Move harddrive to new PC

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Outdoorxman

I have a 30 Gig WD drive with XP Home loaded. I have
pulled it from my old PC and put it in my new PC because I
don't want to loose my installed programs.

The bios sees the drive correctly. When I boot it gives me
a message that the NTLDR is missing. I have tried running
the Repair option from Setup and that seems fine until I
reboot and get the same old error. I have tried booting to
the recovery console and running the fixboot and fixmbr
commands with no success. The drive only has one partition
and it is set active. I also upgraded the bios to the
latest right before the swap. I put the old existing
harddrive back in and it boots to it. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
 
Greetings --

Normally, and assuming a retail license (many OEM licenses are not
transferable to a new motherboard), unless your motherboard is
virtually identical (same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS
version, etc.) to the one on which the other WinXP installation was
originally performed, you'll need to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place
upgrade) installation, at the very least:

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q315341

As always when undertaking such a significant change, back up any
important data before starting.

This will also require re-activation. If it's been more than 120
days since you last activated that specific Product Key, you'll most
likely be able to activate via the internet without problem. If it's
been less, you might have to make a 5 minute phone call.


Bruce Chambers

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