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Moving HD to new system
From all I've read this should be possible but everytime I try it
something seems to go wrong. I'm building a new machine with new MB, CPU and memory. I want to reuse my optical drive and HD. So I put everything together and fired up the machine. DEL'ed into BIOS and checked that all settings were good. Then saved and rebooted. Everything is fine until I (should) boot up windows. Machine reboots. I go back into the BIOS and double check all settings . Same result. Take HD out, put it back in old system and it boots up just fine although it "discovers" new hardware. Fire up new system with clean HD, install XP Pro and it boots up just fine. So my question is: why will the new system not work with the old HD. The BIOS sees the drive, recognizes it but wont boot from it. Any thoughts. TIA |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:10:33 -0800, Jim wrote:
From all I've read this should be possible but everytime I try it something seems to go wrong. I'm building a new machine with new MB, CPU and memory. I want to reuse my optical drive and HD. So I put everything together and fired up the machine. DEL'ed into BIOS and checked that all settings were good. Then saved and rebooted. Everything is fine until I (should) boot up windows. Machine reboots. I go back into the BIOS and double check all settings . Same result. Take HD out, put it back in old system and it boots up just fine although it "discovers" new hardware. Fire up new system with clean HD, install XP Pro and it boots up just fine. So my question is: why will the new system not work with the old HD. The BIOS sees the drive, recognizes it but wont boot from it. Any thoughts. TIA You need to boot off a XP CD and do a repair install when you put it in the new machine as it's trying to use the drivers for the chipset of the old board. Doing what you're trying to do seldom works unless it's a similar chipset. -- Conor The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us. |
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On Feb 22, 3:21 pm, Conor wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:10:33 -0800, Jim wrote: From all I've read this should be possible but everytime I try it something seems to go wrong. I'm building a new machine with new MB, CPU and memory. I want to reuse my optical drive and HD. So I put everything together and fired up the machine. DEL'ed into BIOS and checked that all settings were good. Then saved and rebooted. Everything is fine until I (should) boot up windows. Machine reboots. I go back into the BIOS and double check all settings . Same result. Take HD out, put it back in old system and it boots up just fine although it "discovers" new hardware. Fire up new system with clean HD, install XP Pro and it boots up just fine. So my question is: why will the new system not work with the old HD. The BIOS sees the drive, recognizes it but wont boot from it. Any thoughts. TIA You need to boot off a XP CD and do a repair install when you put it in the new machine as it's trying to use the drivers for the chipset of the old board. Doing what you're trying to do seldom works unless it's a similar chipset. -- Conor The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us. Ah ha. That accounts for my success a few machines back Does this also account for the "new" machine cyclically rebooting? Thanks for your quick response. |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:26:53 -0800, Jim wrote:
Ah ha. That accounts for my success a few machines back Does this also account for the "new" machine cyclically rebooting? Thanks for your quick response. Usually most reliability faults are down to this. -- Conor The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us. |
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WHENEVER you change the Motherboard that is being used with a harddrive
containing a previous installation of Windows, you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you will get ongoing Registry errors and data corruption. The old Windows Registry installation on the harddrive will not recognize the hardware on the new motherboard and will fail. -- --DaveW "Jim" wrote in message ... From all I've read this should be possible but everytime I try it something seems to go wrong. I'm building a new machine with new MB, CPU and memory. I want to reuse my optical drive and HD. So I put everything together and fired up the machine. DEL'ed into BIOS and checked that all settings were good. Then saved and rebooted. Everything is fine until I (should) boot up windows. Machine reboots. I go back into the BIOS and double check all settings . Same result. Take HD out, put it back in old system and it boots up just fine although it "discovers" new hardware. Fire up new system with clean HD, install XP Pro and it boots up just fine. So my question is: why will the new system not work with the old HD. The BIOS sees the drive, recognizes it but wont boot from it. Any thoughts. TIA |
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"DaveW" wrote in message . .. WHENEVER you change the Motherboard that is being used with a harddrive containing a previous installation of Windows, you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you will get ongoing Registry errors and data corruption. The old Windows Registry installation on the harddrive will not recognize the hardware on the new motherboard and will fail. Not really. Google "how to change motherboard without reinstalling the OS." |
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"DaveW" wrote in message . .. WHENEVER you change the Motherboard that is being used with a harddrive containing a previous installation of Windows, you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you will get ongoing Registry errors and data corruption. The old Windows Registry installation on the harddrive will not recognize the hardware on the new motherboard and will fail. Not at all true A repair install usually does the trick. I've had over a 95% success rate with the repair install --DaveW "Jim" wrote in message ... From all I've read this should be possible but everytime I try it something seems to go wrong. I'm building a new machine with new MB, CPU and memory. I want to reuse my optical drive and HD. So I put everything together and fired up the machine. DEL'ed into BIOS and checked that all settings were good. Then saved and rebooted. Everything is fine until I (should) boot up windows. Machine reboots. I go back into the BIOS and double check all settings . Same result. Take HD out, put it back in old system and it boots up just fine although it "discovers" new hardware. Fire up new system with clean HD, install XP Pro and it boots up just fine. So my question is: why will the new system not work with the old HD. The BIOS sees the drive, recognizes it but wont boot from it. Any thoughts. TIA |
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"philo" wrote:
"DaveW" wrote in message WHENEVER you change the Motherboard that is being used with a harddrive containing a previous installation of Windows, you MUST reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of the OS. Otherwise you will get ongoing Registry errors and data corruption... Not at all true A repair install usually does the trick. Whether reinstalling Windows is critical or not, I don't see why anyone would/should shy away from doing a reinstallation of Windows on a freshly formatted hard drive when they are replacing the mainboard, especially if it is their own system. To the original poster. Do you have removable media copies of important files from your hard drive? If not, you are making a boo-boo and no one here will help you do anything constructive with your computer, until you do. If you already have backups, good luck and have fun with your new hardware. Seems to me that when someone is afraid of reinstalling Windows, you can guess that they do not have a copy of important files from their hard drive. Windows and programs settings are a good reason to avoid reinstalling stuff, but the lack of removable media copies of important data is a possible bad reason. Like maybe they don't know how to locate, copy, and then reapply important personal/program data to a new installation. |
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:10:33 -0800 (PST), Jim
wrote: From all I've read this should be possible but everytime I try it something seems to go wrong. I'm building a new machine with new MB, CPU and memory. I want to reuse my optical drive and HD. So I put everything together and fired up the machine. DEL'ed into BIOS and checked that all settings were good. Then saved and rebooted. Everything is fine until I (should) boot up windows. Machine reboots. I go back into the BIOS and double check all settings . Same result. Take HD out, put it back in old system and it boots up just fine although it "discovers" new hardware. Fire up new system with clean HD, install XP Pro and it boots up just fine. So my question is: why will the new system not work with the old HD. The BIOS sees the drive, recognizes it but wont boot from it. Any thoughts. TIA Once again, how to move HDD to new system. I've had 100% success rate with Win2k and XP: http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/Article11.html Bill |
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:16:14 GMT, in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
wrote in part: Whether reinstalling Windows is critical or not, I don't see why anyone would/should shy away from doing a reinstallation of Windows on a freshly formatted hard drive when they are replacing the mainboard, especially if it is their own system. Even Windows is a problem since it may be impossible to follow the path that got you where you are. My typical system came with a few of its own drivers (because the manufacturer decided that he had to mess with stuff), a Microsoft Windows official distribution disk (that obviously doesn't correspond to the version that was actually used to make the system that the original installed Windows on my machine came from), and furthermore was upgraded from Windows XP to SP1 to SP2 by me, and probably even has had the physical system disk changed a time or two. Even with the original Microsoft Windows disks and the {Dell, Compaq (now hp), and hp} driver disk, reinstallation is iffy. In particular, the two most recent times I tried I could reinstall Windows to either of the two different model systems that I tried, even with a few hours me getting stepped through the procedures over the phone by the {major company's) US based support people. Each time they gave up and offered me replacement hardware, and I had to spend a day or 2 fixing the original problem with what should have been a more difficult and more time consuming procedure than just installing a few programs on the luckily fairly new systems. (Only 20 or so add-on programs, rather than the 500 and 3500 on my personal machines.) Seems to me that when someone is afraid of reinstalling Windows, you can guess that they do not have a copy of important files from their hard drive. Windows and programs settings are a good reason to avoid reinstalling stuff, but the lack of removable media copies of important data is a possible bad reason. Like maybe they don't know how to locate, copy, and then reapply important personal/program data to a new installation. Good luck getting everything. TurboTax and a bunch of other things don't have install disks or files that you can use to install stuff. You have to get at least some stuff online. TurboTax (Intuit?), in particular doesn't keep stuff around long enough so that you can install all of the old versions of the software that you might need in case you get audited. Even if you have installation files for everything, you probably can't do things in the same order that they were done the first time, so things may not wind up the same. Also, good luck in getting all of your data, let alone all of your settings, copied from the old system. |
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