RE: need to repair Win XP installation with a Win 98 CD
- From: Anteaus <Anteaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:04:02 -0700
You may find that if you put the disk back in the old computer, go into
Device Manager under Control Panel>System, and change the IDE driver to
"Standard PCI IDE Controller" then it may boot in the new computer. Doesn't
always work, but often it does.
Reason is that the usual problem for non-boot is the use of an incompatible
disk-controller (IDE) driver. Since this loads before autodetection of
hardware takes place, autodetection cannot resolve this.
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"This is a wonderful computer. It''s 20yrs old and absolutely reliable.
And, in all that time it''s only had four mobos, six processors, two cases,
seven OS''s ...."
"gmoore777" wrote:
I have taken a hard drive from my 10-year old PC and have put it in my new PC..
I want to boot from this hard drive, but it doesn't. I get Windows banner
for 1 second, then the machine reboots.
I presume the Win XP operating system faints when it sees the new hardware.
I presume that I need to "repair" this installation with a WinXP
installation CD.
All I have is a Windows 98 installation CD that came with my old PC when I
bought it from Gateway. I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP via some automatic
method via microsoft.com so many years ago.
What is the mechanism of my obtaining a WinXP installation CD?
(hopefully free or at minimal cost)
and is all i need to do is to "repair" the installation?
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