I Tried to install a hard drive from another computer. 1

[Kotera]

This is going to be a long one, so please bare with me. I originally had a computer that was built by a friend, which was a AMD processor and motherboard, 256 mb of ram, 100+HD(one master, one slave). With the XP home operating system. I was having trouble with my Internet Explorer, and ended up accidently deleting my Windows Explorer. Instead of Internet Explorer. The messages I would receive would be: "WinLogon.exe" entry point not found. The procedure entry point AssocIsDangerous could not be located in the DLLSHLWAPI.dll. The Logon user interface DLL masgina: DLL failed to load. Replace DLL or restore the orignal DLL. The XP cd the person gave me did not work, and I was under the assumption he gave me a recovery disk. I later found out there are six recovery disks for XP. I ended up buying a new computer, but I want to save my files from the old hard drive. The computer that was not acting right, I removed the hard drives, and installed one from my son's E-Tower computer which had 64mb of ram, and a 10.8(?) gig hard drive. Before I removed it from my son's computer, I knew the hard drive was good. When I installed it in my old computer, the one with the bad hard drives removed, the BIOS didn't recognize any hard drives. Is there something wrong with this mother board or the cables for the hard drive to the mother board? Also, is there any way to recover my hard drives with the message I have listed? Could I go to the Internet & download DLL from there to try and reinstall it from the CD rom? I pray that someone can help me, I would be crushed if I lost all my files because of a fluke! Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Kotera

 

[edfair]

You can't just unplug a drive from one computer, plug it into another, and expect it to work.
There may be jumpers to set and CMOS settings to set.

Your better path to recovery would be to put the old drive back in the old machine, change the boot order to CD first then choose the repair installation, which would repair the goof.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Kotera]

Thanks Ed, I did try that, but the person who gave me the computer with the XP cd, that XP cd no longer works. I'm a newbie trouble shooting the actual hardware and what not, but I know certain things should work certain ways. So, If I change the jumpers & the CMOS, it might allow the hard drive from my son's computer to work, correct? Thank you for your assistance.

Kotera

 

[edfair]

Assuming that the old bad drive is to be placed as an additional drive on a new host machine you would have the new host as master and old drive as slave and set the CMOS to auto for the primary slave.
If the new host is set as "cs" you would set the old as "cs" also.
There are some drives jumpered as master that must be set for slave present when the slave is installed.
This may allow you to put your drives, one at a time, on the new machine to transfer stuff.
The drive from the e-machine may not be identifiable by the BIOS on your old machine. There are potential size problems.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[wolluf]

Kotera,

Your hard drives will still have all their data on them - just need to mount them in another machine to access it. Or repair the XP installation (repair reinstall) - for which you will need a working XP Hiome install CD:-

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

As Ed says - moving drives with o/s between machines is not a good idea - and that other machine sounds like it would be running win9x or possibly ME. You'd be better off with a 2k or XP machine to access your drives. You say you bought a new computer - presumably running XP - so why not slave the drives to that machine to recover your files?

 

[Kotera]

Hi Wolluf,

I only have Windows 98, & XP O/S that I am working with.The drive from my son's computer is Windows 98. I had originally wanted to give my son my old computer since it is newer than his E-Tower. I thought that my two hard drives from my old computer would cause a problem with my new one if I placed one of the drives there since it is missing the DLL link, (which was why I couldn't access my WindowsXP in the beginning.) I do have a Win2000 disk to install for my old computer when I get it fixed for my son. Thank you for any help you can provide with this situation.

Kotera

 

[edfair]

Your old drive with the missing dll will work fine with the new machine since you are using a different operating system if you install it as an additional drive.

But a repair installation on your original computer with the original disks in the same positions and the XPH CD and set to boot from the CD is still your best step.

Your choices when booting from the CD are for a fresh install or a repair install.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Kotera]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the suggestion regarding my problem. I had tried to do "the repair" option from the cd, however, the CD I was given with XP is no longer recognized from my computer.My computer was built by a friend, who installed XP on my system. I will probably try your suggestion of placing the other drives as additional drives. I'll have to wait for the weekend to try it out. Thanks again.

Kotera