Computer Problem

[matlock]

Alright, so I have a computer problem it is probably something simple....I am not an idiot but I haven't had much experience with hard drives.

Alright so here is the deal I have a 40Gig HDD that has XP on it, and its the OEM preloaded XP which I have read is somehow tied to the machine well, I got a new computer and that also has XP on it and I want to slave the old HDD and get my old files off of it. I have put them on the same IDE cable and adjusted the Jumper settings making the old one the slave...and then when I turn the computer on it goes to the windows XP screen with the loading bar and then just goes black, any ideas? Thanks

[psychedelicbeats]

leave it. it's computer lag. it should kick in eventually. and i'm not kidding. if you don't want to wait, put the 40gig on secondary and see what happens. remember and be sure there's no master/slave conficts on secondary i.e. cd-rom, zip, etc...

[matlock]

I tried firing up the old HDD as the primary and disconnected the new one and it said NO OS FOUND....is that just because I have taken it off of the old computer and it had OEM XP which I heard is tied to the computer it comes with....if this is the case I don't really care because I just want my data not the OS.

[citizen]

try checking your flux capacitor settings! and make sure its set up in the bios.

[matlock]

I did the BIOS settings already but ill check the Flux Capacitor and make sure its set to 1.21 jiggawatts! Haha.

[mjjstang]

do you have a zip drive hooked up, mine fucked everything up for a while OH NO MY L KEY IS STICKING FUCK. but yah try that maybe.

[MakotoS13]

try pulling all the jumpers off and just connecting it as secondary. it should just see it as another drive...

[G_Fish240]

you cant just take out a old hardrive and put it on another motherboard and want the programs to work, formatt it first

put the hard drive in, download a startup disc from microsofts website put that it and in teh command line format C or whatever the letter is

[psychedelicbeats]

don't touch the primary ide cable and its settings. if the new computer is already working, don't bother with the primary ide controller. if you set your old hdd to *primary* master (or let the old hdd boot in cmos) on your new computer, the os will not boot because the old hdd's NT backbone only registers all the io devices, drivers, and everything else at boot for the old computer. in the new computer...

if there is an ide cable for the secondary ide controller, and a device connected to it, unplug the device like the cdrom or whatever and then plug the old hard drive regardless of master/slave. be sure there are no devices other than the old hdd connected. let it boot as secondary (master/slave).. use auto-detect to make it easier on you. the hard drive should pop up as D: drive in winxp

if there is no ide cable for the secondary ide controller, unplug the ide cable from the old computer and plug it into the secondary controller. and then plug your hard drive in, set it to auto-etect in bios, and let it boot.

[mjjstang]

you cant just take out a old hardrive and put it on another motherboard and want the programs to work, formatt it first



Ive done it many times

[matlock]

Ive done it many times

I just wanted my pictures/video/music and some documents and websites I have made, not really any programs....and it worked fine I got it all to work it was all in the flux capacitor haha.

[Phlip]

I have one piece of advice I can offer, and that is who NOT to go to for help, and here that is (http://www.maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=compusa_sucks)

[omen2853]

if the new computer works fine and the onld one worked fine before you took out the drive there are 2 things you can do. first you can put everything back the way you found it and just hook one computer up to the other using a firewire or usb and just transfer over. if you want both HD's in the new one, all you have to do if plug it in as a slave with the HD on the new cpu. it should read it automatically. ive done it 5 itmes.

[matlock]

Thanks guys but I got it figured out like i posted before I did like the post by Philip haha...but I have it all figured out now.