Move HD from one PC to another

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I'm trying to test a P4 system by moving a HD from a P3 system. This HD has
XP installed and working in the P3 system.
I unplugged the SATA HD's connector from the P4, connected the P3 IDE HD to
the P4 using the IDE connector.
Confirmed that BIOS can see the IDE HD and rebooted the system.
The system booted up to the screen whereby user could select Safe Boot.
If I continued to boot the system or selected the Safe Boot option, the next
screen was a BSOD. I could not read the message as the screen just disappear.
So what did I do wrong here that I'm unable to test this IDE HD on the P4?
Thank you.
 
ML said this on 4/6/2009 9:45 AM:
I'm trying to test a P4 system by moving a HD from a P3 system. This HD has
XP installed and working in the P3 system.
I unplugged the SATA HD's connector from the P4, connected the P3 IDE HD to
the P4 using the IDE connector.
Confirmed that BIOS can see the IDE HD and rebooted the system.
The system booted up to the screen whereby user could select Safe Boot.
If I continued to boot the system or selected the Safe Boot option, the next
screen was a BSOD. I could not read the message as the screen just disappear.
So what did I do wrong here that I'm unable to test this IDE HD on the P4?
Thank you.

XP on each drive is configured for the hardware. I don't think you can
move them around as easy as you think. Drivers are wrong for the
hardware, processor, etc. All sorts of stumbling blocks.
 
ML said:
I'm trying to test a P4 system by moving a HD from a P3 system. This HD
has XP installed and working in the P3 system.
I unplugged the SATA HD's connector from the P4, connected the P3 IDE HD
to the P4 using the IDE connector. Confirmed that BIOS can see the IDE HD
and rebooted the system.
The system booted up to the screen whereby user could select Safe Boot.
If I continued to boot the system or selected the Safe Boot option, the
next screen was a BSOD. I could not read the message as the screen just
disappear.
So what did I do wrong here that I'm unable to test this IDE HD on the P4?

Big_Al said:
XP on each drive is configured for the hardware. I don't think you can
move them around as easy as you think. Drivers are wrong for the
hardware, processor, etc. All sorts of stumbling blocks.

Big_Al is correct.

If this is a non-OEM licensed version of Windows XP, you can perform a
repair installation (in-place upgrade) to transfer the system from one
machine to the other and get around most (if not all) the stumbling blocks.
You should have an installation CD at the same service pack level as the
installed operating system (so if the installed operating system is Windows
XP SP3 - you should have installation media with SP3 integrated into it for
Windows XP.)

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341
 
I tried the very same thing just a few days ago.
Same results. So I tried to do a "Repair Install"
which did not work for me. It was an experiment
so in my case nothing was lost except some time to
try.

A Repair Install may work in your case so it's worth a try.
 
ML said:
I'm trying to test a P4 system by moving a HD from a P3 system. This HD has
XP installed and working in the P3 system.
I unplugged the SATA HD's connector from the P4, connected the P3 IDE HD to
the P4 using the IDE connector.
Confirmed that BIOS can see the IDE HD and rebooted the system.
The system booted up to the screen whereby user could select Safe Boot.
If I continued to boot the system or selected the Safe Boot option, the next
screen was a BSOD. I could not read the message as the screen just disappear.
So what did I do wrong here that I'm unable to test this IDE HD on the P4?
Thank you.


Normally, and assuming a retail license (many factory-installed OEM
installations are BIOS-locked to a specific motherboard chipset and
therefore are *not* transferable to a new motherboard - check yours
before starting), unless the new motherboard is virtually identical
(same chipset, same IDE controllers, same BIOS version, etc.) to the one
on which the 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

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with WinXP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

The "why" is quite simple, really, and has nothing to do with
licensing issues, per se; it's a purely technical matter, at this point.
You've pulled the proverbial hardware rug out from under the OS. (If
you don't like -- or get -- the rug analogy, think of it as picking up a
Cape Cod style home and then setting it down onto a Ranch style
foundation. It just isn't going to fit.) WinXP, like Win2K before it,
is not nearly as "promiscuous" as Win9x when it comes to accepting any
old hardware configuration you throw at it. On installation it
"tailors" itself to the specific hardware found. This is one of the
reasons that the entire WinNT/2K/XP OS family is so much more stable
than the Win9x group.

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

This will also probably require re-activation, unless you have a
Volume Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. 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.



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