I have done that before. It takes a few minutes for the hard drive to make the adjustments, find the new hardware like the motherboard etc. Sometimes that works seamless but usually you need to install the associated drivers for all the new hardware like motherboard, sound, video, etc But again it DOES work. I have done it successfully on both XP and 7 machines The reason I want to do this again is because the XP version I have isn't bootable -- you can only do an install from inside windows But after tinkering with it through the night I did manage to install is using a virtual machine Then I took the hard drive and put it in the system I wanted And like I said in my first paragraph just had to install all the hardware like usual and bam.
It works. So now I have another pc running XP.. Thanks for help! Alan Wade A question that hasnt been asked, why dont you wait until you have built the new machine then install Win XP on the new hard drive? Jeffrey Wilson I use virtualbox to several operating systems inside windows 7 including ubuntu.
Alan Wade You cannot install an operating system onto a hard drive then transfer the hard drive to another machine, it will not work. Harshit J Why not get the licence key for it and use it with another installation CD? Besides, you could get a windows CD and install it on your second hard drive and then upgrade it to XP.
Bruce Epper You will need to install XP on that hard drive in the system that will be running it. Trying to move a hard drive with a working copy of Windows from one machine to another without identical hardware will require you to jump through hoops in an effort to change the drivers required to make the system work and if you have not done it before, it will just frustrate you since it is rarely easy.
Build the PC. I fixed my hardware problem. It seems as thought the Optical drive was bad but now, there is a conflict between the internal optical drive and the laptop hard drive. I can remove the internal hard drive and get the optical drive to mount the installer and the drive spins up when the optical drive is removed but, when both devices are present neither appear in the system bios settings.
What should I do I need to install XP. He may come out better creating a bootable partition on the hard drive and another partition with the set-up files on it. Unless the hardware is identical you will not get a working computer this way. I agree with Chas here if you are unable to install XP onto a computer you have one of two problems if it's an older one it or at least some of the hardware might not be XP compatible or you could have faulty Hardware.
To check the hardware download the Ultimate Boot Cd and make a copy and boot from that then run some diagnostics on the computer to see if it's actually working properly. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.
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I have done this using Dan Goodell's method of restore. I know little about troubleshooting Event Viewer showed some Disk errors, some to do with pagefile. I "deleted" and created a new paging file. I figured better safe than sorry and ordered a new drive.
Also ordered Ghost, though it hasn't arrived. I also downloaded the trialware version. A sysadmin at my company felt that if I copied the old drive, I would copy any corrupted settings or files to the new drive. I'm going to attempt to install the new drive now. I'm up for suggestions to make the transition easier, of course! Now it depends how involved you want to be in restoring to the new hard drive.
Since it is very involved in manually configuring the new hard drive to be exactly like the old one I will suggest this.
Most likely the Dell ghost image in the restore partition is ok and intact. Unless it sits on any of the damaged sectors on the hard drive. So if the image is ok you can use Ghost to restore that image to the new drive and just have the new drive be one partition with the OS on it.
Another option would be to partition the new hd and put the ghost image on a partition like where it is now and use your own custom restore process when needed.
As far as the Dell utility partition at the front of the drive it will be gone too. But you can make a bootable Dell diagnostics CD and still test all the components. Okay, but to restore the image from the old drive, I'd have to put the old drive back in? I don't know how to put in or configure a second drive.
I can see the "bay" where it goes but I don't know about cables and jumpers and all that. I'm okay with not having the Dell utility partition. Hi all, Just joined and this thread is the closest to the relatively simple problem I have. I had no idea that there were hidden partitions on the disk, but in fact do not particularly care. It is as if the system thinks it is configured as a Dual Boot. Hitting Return selects the first option and the computer boots with no problems.
If I select the second it tells me that Windows cannot start because the file hal. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this annoying OS choices menu on Boot up or what may have caused it to appear in the first place?
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