ShYYLO

Here is the issue. I took out my hard drive in my computer and trying to swap it in my friends computer. my hard drive in my friends computer will not boot, but it is perfectly fine in my computer. What happens is when I put my hard drive in my friends computer and try to boot it, it will start to boot and in the process of booting there is a blue sceen with somthing that appears but the computer re-boots way too fast for me to even read what is on the blue screen. my hard drive has win XP on it and on the computer in which im trying to put my hard drive in was also running win XP.

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iTrader: (5)

TRY setting your dive as a D in his cp not as a C . use his as a C

JordyO

iTrader: (17)

Uhhhh... you can't just take a computers HD and swap it in to another system.

There are drivers there for the HD controller, chipsets, and a bunch of other devices that are probably on your computer but not on your friends.

Why exactly are you trying to do this?

In any case, you can't do what you're trying... it just won't work

MrEastSide

Yeah, you can't just switch primary harddrives and expect it to boot like normal. Now you could add one of the drives to one of the computers as a slave drive and get access to what is on it. But, if his simply won't boot then there is obviously a problem with it and it probably won't even operate correctly as a slave.

Also, his harddrive boots as a master on your PC or as a slave? It shouldn't be able to boot as the master drive on your computer. I'm asking since you didn't explain.

ShYYLO

ok here is what im trying to do. My friend gave me his computer which is alot faster than mine. Im trying to keep all my data and use his CPU since it is faster. My hard drive is alot bigger than his. Im just trying to take out my hard drive from my computer and replacing it in his computer and getting rid of his hard drive.

I cant boot my friends computer after i have put my hard drive in it and then gettting it to boot. Im not using his hard drive at all in his computer, ive fully disconnected it. this is the problem im facing.

Should I just set my hard drive as slave and keep the existing hard drive in his computer as master and try booting it that way, how would that work both hard drives contain WIN XP on them, will this work?

thanks

TD_Pėnut

actually i have interchanged a harddrive before..on two very dif computers..don't understand how or why ti worked..prolly because they both used the same style of chipset for most of the built on components. but ya..copy stuff from one drive..format , re-install , then copy back it's the easiest way.

JordyO

iTrader: (17)

Then you got lucky.... same chipsets made it easy but 9 times out of 10 that won't work.

TD_Pėnut

oh i know i got lucky, but it's handy to just put my harddrive in it when i want.

ShYYLO

what should I do now, how should I install my HD I dont want to erase all the data nor do I want to burn everything to CD, is there any way of doing it without erasing anything or copying anything.