XP moved from one system to another fails to start

[bvkiran 0]

My old Compaq UWAVE motherboard failed and I moved the harddisk (Maxtor) to a ASUS P2B-DS(dual processor) motherboard. The harddisk is IDE and was booting up XP.

 

Problem1: Autodetect works and reports the right hard disk capacity but wrong cylinders etc.

 

Problem 2: Finish CMOS and exit, the harddisk size reported is some ridiculous number. Am using Award BIOS 1004

 

After that XP does not boot up. No screen no nothing. Just freezes.

 

Any help from the experts on the forum will be appreciated.

[Ali 0]

If the motherboard and CPU on the two systems are different windows XP will not work properly (have tried to get it too work way too many times before). After dealing with activation problem there is always a system crash or something!!!!

 

I don't think you can use the same installation of windows from one computer to another.

 

[adamvjackson 0]

Long story short, it may be *possible*, but not worth the time. YOu would have to remove all the old system drivers, and essentially sysprep the installation to remove SIDs as well, plus you would likely take a performance/stability hit.

 

Best bet is to reinstall from scratch when you change a motherboard. Too much hardware is intergrated to be bothered trying to band-aid the system.

[bvkiran 0]

I don't mind not booting through this disk. But is this disk useless. Can't I see data on this disk anymore. Can I use another boot disk and see data on this disk.

 

I already have a SCSI disk with Win2K running. Will this work.

 

Thanks in advance

[adamvjackson 0]

Unless you encrypted the partition/volume with EFS then yes, you should be able to add that drive in another system as a "slave" in order to retrieve data from it.