ported hard drive into new case windows wont boot!!

[markster27]

built myself a new system (amd athlon xp1800 256mb mem), everything great bios detects hard drive no probs, however windows xp will not boot, it gives me a list of options:- start with command prompt, start with safe mode, start with last known good config, start with windows normally etc, i have chosen practically all of these options and every time the machine resets itself. maybe ive kanckered my hard drive, but when i set my original system up (piii 800mhz 256mb ram) windows boots just fine. i have never built a new system before, am i a fool to just think you can throw your existing hard drive in a new machine without reformating? or changing some obsure option somwhere,please help many thanks mark.

 

[markster27]

forgot to mention, the hd is a ibm deskster 80 gig

 

[markster27]

just lateral thinking of my own, would this be because i have an ntfs filing system not fat32?

 

[edfair]

Won't say you are a fool for thinking you can switch. Just inexperienced with the realities.
More experienced than you have bloodied themselves trying this. (I'm 5 days into one, and I'm supposed to know what I'm doing)
In earlier versions you could remove all the hardware related stuff and the OS would reinstall the right drivers about 90% of the time. So you had probably 9 of 10 chance it would work.

Ed Fair
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[markster27]

thanks for the reply edfair, so what were saying is in reality is that i will have to reformat the hd and re-install windows xp?. whats the best procedure to do this on a new build system as in my case with an existing hd.

 

[edfair]

Before you do it, give it a day or two for others with more XP experience to respond.

From memory, think I deleted the partition, changed boot device to CD, and let it rip. That was probably 4 months ago and I don't wake up with nightmares so it must not have been too traumatic. I tend to remember the traumas.

Ed Fair
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[TomCologne]

WinXP has had some publicity for the required registration and re-registering issues after hardware changes.

My guess is that this problem is caused by the unmatching hardware parameters on HDD vs new system.

I've always taken the opportunity to clean up my clutter of files followed by a clean install with any OS, so I can't say if that would even work with Win98,ME,2000.

Ed, before I take some side panels off to find out the hard way to satisfy my curiousity, I'd appreciate your opinion!

TomCologne

 

[wolluf]

Tom - what are you saying (you've lost me - its not a reactivation issue)

Mark - if you're happy wiping existing installation - go with ED (ie, clean reinstall)

If you need to try to save existing - some links

faq616-3353

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/article11.htm

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/other/motherboard/problems.htm

 

[TomCologne]

wolluf,

Not your fault, just very fuzzy logic on my side.

My idea was about XP using hardware configuration parameters to identify its setup on one computer, thus requiring re-registering after certain hardware changes.
Poorly put, I agree. This will hopefully make it understandable:

My concern was about transplanting a HDD with an existing WinXP installation to a completely different system.

In other words, does Windows not depend on finding the same PIII on the mb and.., which were present on installation?

Does it make sense now? I'm not sure if yesterday's browsing MS's knowledebase may have left me with some side effects.

TomCologne

 

[markster27]

thanks all for the time and knowledge, looks as if i might be able to get away without a reformat, i will keep you posted on my findings, once again thanks for your time and effort i really apreciate it.