I was having some problems with my old motherboard so I have recently got hold of a new one. I want to take the Hard drive from my old machine - XP is already installed on it, and connect it to the new motherboard. How can I boot the new motherboard and hard drive in safe mode in order to load the new motherboards drivers?
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Swapping Harddrive to new mothernboard
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You can't, it will blue-screen. Actually, there is a way, but it takes about two hours of technical work and a registry change (and the motherboards have to be similar). One error and you lose everything. Win 98 was easy, Win XP is designed differently. Install XP normally on the new drive, re-authorize it with MS. Put the old drive as slave and copy any files you need from it. You can re-install any programs you use, and copy the data from the old drive.
You could try a "repair" installation.
Set cdrom as first boot device in the bios, restart with XP in the CDrom drive, boot from CD.
Repair install.
Note* there are risks, backup important files before trying this.
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Set cdrom as first boot device in the bios, restart with XP in the CDrom drive, boot from CD.
Repair install.
Note* there are risks, backup important files before trying this.
Martin
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Would agree with Martin - if it won't boot at all -
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