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I took a hard drive from a Gateway PC that had a bad floppy drive and put it
in a Dell to format and Load Windows 2000 Pro. After formatting and loading
Windows 2000, I put the hard drive back into the Gateway. Now, when the PC
boots, it hangs at the 'Starting Windows...' prompt. Is Windows hanging on
a driver? Can I force Windows to boot? I can't even get into safe mode.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

John
 
Put the drive back in the gateway, boot the CD-Rom and run the install
again. The hardware is dissimilar.
 
Dave's totally correct -- it's likely you will not be able to boot because
the hardware is dissimilar. An in place upgrade might be your best bet.

306952 What an In-Place Windows 2000 Upgrade Changes and What It Does Not
Change
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306952

292175 How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292175

249694 How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249694

HTH,

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Dave Patrick said:
Put the drive back in the gateway, boot the CD-Rom and run the install
again. The hardware is dissimilar.

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AnytimeAnywhere said:
I took a hard drive from a Gateway PC that had a bad floppy drive and
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put
it
in a Dell to format and Load Windows 2000 Pro. After formatting and loading
Windows 2000, I put the hard drive back into the Gateway. Now, when the PC
boots, it hangs at the 'Starting Windows...' prompt. Is Windows hanging on
a driver? Can I force Windows to boot? I can't even get into safe mode.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

John
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Hi John,

You are correct that it is most likely a driver that is causing this
behavior. The procedure you followed is not supported for this very reason.
You may be able to work around this problem by performing an In-place
upgrade or by performing a complete backup with the drive in the Gateway and
then restoring it to the new Dell machine after you perform a clean install.

249694 How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249694

292175 How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292175
 
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