My old computer had windows xp home edition. The mother board went out, I
finally got a computer to put my hard drive in. As a master it will not
acknowledge windows. As a slave, it will not let me into my documents and
settings folder. I believe because I had my computer password protected.
This is how I see it. Because part of windows is embedded into the bios and
the cmos,
No, no part of Windows is in the BIOS. There is an ID key of some sort
in the BIOS, and pre-installed OEM versions of Windows that come on a
Dell or HP or other large manufacturer will probably be locked to that
ID code. When the machine boots, they will retrieve that code and if
it's not what's expected, they won't boot. That makes it impossible to
transfer that copy of the OS to another machine.
that is why it will not fully load window while being connected to
another motherboard.
That could be why you can't boot using that disk as a boot disk. But
if you connect it as an extra disk (slave or different EIDE
controller), you should be able to access it.
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