Roman Suazo wrote: > I needed to install a new HD with its corresponding OS (xp) in an old Pc > (500 mhz, 128 ram, bad CD-ROM), but due to the slowness of the Pc, I prefered > to install the OS by using a newer PC. Everything went fine but when I > installed the HD in the old pc, XP wouldn't start. My questions are: is it > feasible what I tried to do? Could it be that the OS is not working because > the BIOS is not recognizing properly the HD? What else could be causing this > problem? > > It seems like the Auto-detect function of the BIOS is working fine but I am > not really sure... > Hi Roman,
As other people have said this will not work as XP stores information about all the hardware. Over Christmas I wanted to put in a new hard disk into my son's PC. What I tried to do was install it as a slave disk, then boot using a floppy with a copy of norton ghost on it and ghost over the whole partition. This worked fine, so then I set the old drive as a slave, then new drive as a master and tried booting up. It booted up ok, but the old drive was still the C drive and the new one D! I think the reason for this was that XP had information about the old drive and had linked that to C. It might have worked ok if I left out the old drive, but didn't try this. When I swapped them back (master/slave) it worked fine, so now he has to install his new games to the D drive. Peter _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
