New cloned Hard Drive question

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Sam M.

Hi,
The motherboard on my old PC went bad and I had to get a new PC. I installed
a second 200G HD and cloned the HD from my old fried computer to this new
secondary HD. My new PC runs XP Pro and the new cloned drive, I'm attempting
to get XP home to operate. I can get this cloned drive to boot by changing
the BIOS but I can only get XP to load in safe mode. Previous to getting safe
mode there's a blue screen with suggestions and the problem listed there is
STOP: 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xBA2F8750, OxBA4E342C, 0xBA4E3128).

I tried copying all the drivers from the XP Pro that shipped with my new PC
into the Drivers folder of the non booting system but it didn't solve the
problem.

I need to get this running since my kids had lots of games and educational
software on the fried PC that can't be easily replaced.

Thanks
 
You can't do what you did as the cloned drive is now attached to a different
motherboard than previously. When a motherboard is changed the usual
procedure is to boot from the XP CD and do a repair install; this allows
Windows to detect the hardware change and install the appropriate drivers.
(Just copying drivers is not going to work - they must be 'installed'.)

Another problem is you said Pro and Home are on the same system. That will
only work if you set things up in a dual-boot configuration. Which requires
a different solution.

For now, change the BIOS so that the 'cloned' drive is the one you want as
the primary drive (for now); then change the BIOS to boot from the Home CD,
save the settings, insert the Home CD in the CD/DVD drive, reboot, select
the CD, opt to do a repair install. If you're successful you will boot to XP
Home and your kids will be happy. (To make sure you don't really screw up
the Pro system on the other drive you could disconnect/remove it just to be
safe.)

If that doesn't work or you have an OEM XP Home CD and can't do a repair
install then you're stuck and you'll have to reinstall everyhting.

Have fun.
 
Sam M. said:
Hi,
The motherboard on my old PC went bad and I had to get a new PC. I installed
a second 200G HD and cloned the HD from my old fried computer to this new
secondary HD. My new PC runs XP Pro and the new cloned drive, I'm attempting
to get XP home to operate. I can get this cloned drive to boot by changing
the BIOS but I can only get XP to load in safe mode. Previous to getting safe
mode there's a blue screen with suggestions and the problem listed there is
STOP: 0x0000007E (0x0000005, 0xBA2F8750, OxBA4E342C, 0xBA4E3128).

I tried copying all the drivers from the XP Pro that shipped with my new PC
into the Drivers folder of the non booting system but it didn't solve the
problem.

I need to get this running since my kids had lots of games and educational
software on the fried PC that can't be easily replaced.

Thanks
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The only way to get that to work would be to perform a repair installation.
You will need you XP home CD to do that.
If it's a factory recovery CD, that won't work!

Also:
Be sure to remove the original drive when you do the repair install
 
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