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hard drive help.
I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent
computer. It's not loading in the computer so I went to redo windows and I get this. The file dmio.sys is corrupted. What does this mean? If I put the 80 g back in the frist computer it works. If I put the hard drive 13.60 that was in the other computer to being with it works. Do I need a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g -- Message posted via HWKB.com http://www.hwkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/...built/200609/1 |
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hard drive help.
"marq122 via HWKB.com" u26242@uwe wrote in message news:65e918fb17971@uwe... I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent computer. It's not loading in the computer so I went to redo windows and I get this. The file dmio.sys is corrupted. What does this mean? If I put the 80 g back in the frist computer it works. If I put the hard drive 13.60 that was in the other computer to being with it works. Do I need a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g -- Message posted via HWKB.com http://www.hwkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/...built/200609/1 OK, that's hard to follow. But I've seen similar problems caused by bad RAM. -Dave |
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hard drive help.
Dave wrote:
I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] need a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g OK, that's hard to follow. But I've seen similar problems caused by bad RAM. -Dave I think the ram is good cause it works with a diffent hard drive in it. -- Message posted via http://www.hwkb.com |
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hard drive help.
"marq122 via HWKB.com" u26242@uwe wrote in message news:65e988f85d5da@uwe... Dave wrote: I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] need a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g OK, that's hard to follow. But I've seen similar problems caused by bad RAM. -Dave I think the ram is good cause it works with a diffent hard drive in it. -- Invalid assumption. Depending on how the other hard drive is set up, what kind of cache it has, and several other factors, it's possible that a bad spot in RAM might not be accessed as frequently with one hard drive. RAM is laid out like a spreadsheet. It's possible for most of the 'sheet' to look good, with just one or a few blocks bad, and the system can run fine that way for a long time, depending on what hardware/os you are running, and how it is set up. I'd run memtest86 on the system, with NO hard drive hooked up. (off a bootable CD-Rom) If the memory still looks OK, try updating the mainboard BIOS. You shouldn't be able to access the hard drive at all if it was a BIOS problem (so you should never get as far as an error message), but I've seen stranger things happen. -Dave |
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hard drive help.
You CANNOT use a harddrive that has been installed in one computer with XP
loaded to it while using that computer's motherboard, and then move the harddrive to another computer with a differrent motherboard and expect it to work. When you change the motherboard that is used with a harddrive that has XP installed on it then you must reformat and do a fresh install of XP while connected to the new motherboard. -- DaveW ---------------- "marq122 via HWKB.com" u26242@uwe wrote in message news:65e918fb17971@uwe... I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent computer. It's not loading in the computer so I went to redo windows and I get this. The file dmio.sys is corrupted. What does this mean? If I put the 80 g back in the frist computer it works. If I put the hard drive 13.60 that was in the other computer to being with it works. Do I need a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g -- Message posted via HWKB.com http://www.hwkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/...built/200609/1 |
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hard drive help.
DaveW wrote:
You CANNOT use a harddrive that has been installed in one computer with XP loaded to it while using that computer's motherboard, and then move the harddrive to another computer with a differrent motherboard and expect it to work. When you change the motherboard that is used with a harddrive that has XP installed on it then you must reformat and do a fresh install of XP while connected to the new motherboard. I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] need a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g That tell me a lot. No wonder I had to reinstall windows a couple of times. How do I reformat the hard drive? -- Message posted via http://www.hwkb.com |
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hard drive help.
DaveW wrote:
You CANNOT use a harddrive that has been installed in one computer with XP loaded to it while using that computer's motherboard, and then move the harddrive to another computer with a differrent motherboard and expect it to work. When you change the motherboard that is used with a harddrive that has XP installed on it then you must reformat and do a fresh install of XP while connected to the new motherboard. Wrong, a repair install works fine. ---------------- "marq122 via HWKB.com" u26242@uwe wrote in message news:65e918fb17971@uwe... I have a 80 g hard drive that I took out of one computer and put in a diffent computer. It's not loading in the computer so I went to redo windows and I get this. The file dmio.sys is corrupted. What does this mean? If I put the 80 g back in the frist computer it works. If I put the hard drive 13.60 that was in the other computer to being with it works. Do I need a diffent motherboard to work with the 80g -- Message posted via HWKB.com http://www.hwkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/...built/200609/1 |
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