Old drive won't boot in new computer

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I have a hard drive that I can not get to boot. Please see my prior post
named "Freeze on start up"

I was able to get to safe mode with this drive but that is about it. I took
the drive out and placed it into another machine but I get the BLUE SCREEN,
saying I had to remove any newly installed hardware, but there isn't any, or
that I had a virus.

Scandisk /f will not respond when I get to the C: prompt. I will try a
third, brand new, computer but I would appreciate any feedback.
 
This is a continuation of your first thread? You installed (upgraded)
Windows 2000 on top of Windows 98 and it turned into a disaster and now
you took the hard drive and stuck it in a different computer? Do you
really expect that to work? You won't only be walking on water if you
get this to work, by six o'clock tonight you'll be walking on clouds and
by noon tomorrow you'll be walking on the moon! As I see it however you
are right now more like Icarus, he crashed and burned!

You can't take a Windows 2000 drive and stick it in another computer and
expect it to boot up presto! Especially not if the installation was
screwed up to begin with! Even if the installation was flawlessly
perfect the computer onto which you move the drive would have to be
nearly identical to the one where the drive came from for a scheme like
that to work. Look here for more information:

How to move a Windows 2000 installation to different hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249694

Even if you try to follow the procedure above you are past the point of
getting anything useful out of the disaster you have on your hands now.
Time to tell your cheap customer that he has no choice but to pay for
new software and do the only thing that can be done with this mess,
format the drive and install Windows 2000 properly from scratch. There
is no one in this or other Windows 2000 groups who can or will want to
help you "try" to fix this total disaster. If your client has files
that he wants to save on the drive do as Dave Patrick suggested to
recover the files or slave the drive into another Windows 2000 pc to
save the files before you wipe the drive.

End of story, we can't walk on water either.

John
 
Clearly you don't know the first thing about W2k. And you didn't follow
advice given here over a month ago. Now you're trying the impossible. Great!

Please post progress reports here often. Don't let me down. I need this;
I've read all the suspense novels in the local library.
 
SOLONY said:
I have a hard drive that I can not get to boot. Please see my prior post
named "Freeze on start up"

I was able to get to safe mode with this drive but that is about it. I took
the drive out and placed it into another machine but I get the BLUE SCREEN,
saying I had to remove any newly installed hardware, but there isn't any, or
that I had a virus.

Scandisk /f will not respond when I get to the C: prompt. I will try a
third, brand new, computer but I would appreciate any feedback.
Click to expand...

never saw your first post.
anyway you need to perform a rerpair installation.

if you don't know how...
google for exact instructions
 
I really did not have very much hope actually but I really ROFL on these
responses. I really appreciate everyone's help. At least I got a good laugh.
 
Then I guess I won't be looking in my telescope tonight to see if you
are walking on the moon... but I'll be looking for these Martians! They
already made one of the Mars rovers disappear and as soon as they make
it to the moon it means an imminent attack on earth...after they eat all
the cheese on the moon...

John
 
I saw your post afterwards but I did exatly that. You were right and you win
the grand prise. Thanks a million.....
 
I have to let you know that I WAS able to restore that cumputer. I can't
belive it myself but a repair installation worked on this new computer. I
don't hold out much hope of this drive living forever but I was actually able
to get it restored, out od safe mode and functioning properly. Thanks for
your input.
 
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