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I have and old compaq presario win 95 harddrive that I am transferring to a new HP system. I changed to CS on the hard drive but it freezes up on start up. I only see the compaq logo and then it freezes up from there. I also changes the hard drive as master and still freezes up at start up.

Does anyone know what the problem could be?

thanks

 

[wolluf]

You're always likely to get problems if you move a hard drive with operating system to a new hardware environment (because its got all the wrong drivers & your's is also from a Compaq!).

Have you tried safe mode? (If you can get into safe mode, remove everything you can in device manager, reboot & cross your fingers).

PS. If you've data to retrieve, I'd just slave it in another machine & copy it off.

 

[legend2b4]

yes had this before the boot loader on the compaq HD is looking for the HEX BIOS address on the old machine
your not going to get a fully successful boot

If it's a matter of the data on the hd install as slave boot to the master and copy over the files

If you would to keep all the presario stuff... well you can but it's a hell of a lot of messing about and it will hang in XP and glitch in win 9x

sorry can't be of more help

 

[sherpard]

i reboot and it had files on it how can i get them back

 

[Grenage]

While you can get it to work in your new system I would recommend a clean install since it will never run properly otherwise.

Set the old hard-drive as secondary (or primary/secondary on the second IDE cable) and install windows on the main hard drive of your new HP machine. You should then be able to see both drives in windows and copy off the data you need.

 

[smah]

It's not quite clear what you're trying to do. If you're trying to put the old hard drive into your new computer as a second drive - set the jumper on the old drive to 'slave' or 'sl'. Make sure the new drive (original one in new computer) is set to 'master' or 'ma' and that they are on the same cable and that the cable is attached correclty- usually pin 1 (red stripe on cable) is toward the power connector.