I recently acquired an older PC from my Grandparents (Of all people). So me, experimenting took the Heatsink and the CPU out of both and tried to swap them between my two computers. (As my PC is superior in all ways to the new one except in processor speed. I figure out then that the processor in my PC was AMD and the processor in the other was Intel. Obviously not swappable. So I decided to move all my components to the new PC. I did this fine, until it came to booting up. I booted the new pc up, with no jumper on the drive from my old pc as it says that is what singular master is. It booted up fine-ish. It goes onto the "windows was shutdown improperly" screen where it lists safemode and all of that, I try booting with normal settings but as soon as that screen disappears the computer restarts. I try booting in safemode and it gets down to the file "mup.sys" or something, and then restarts. So I replaced both the hardrives, so my pc and the new one had the respective orginal HDD's. They both booted fine. So my question is: Why can I not boot off my PC's HDD when I move it into another pc?
are all the cable connected properly? Also, what have you changed, added, or removed from the pc that wont boot?
Yes, everything is connected properly, as It goes into the mode select screen but not any further. I have removed/replaced nothing except the HDD.
Most windows installs will not work in any other PC but the one they were installed on. Usually, if the new PC has a different chipset (moving from an Intel to an AMD that's very likely) the install won't work. You'll need to reinstall windows I'm afraid.
sam is right because if both boards use different chipsets like via & intel for example the xp will barf. if same chipset manufacturer then might be alright & will load. do a fresh install to save you from getting a headache.
Ive done a few xp cd repairs doing the same and they've worked without fail saving installed data still but no doubt a clean install is the best option as suggested.
Incidently, I now have 3 HDD's in the one machine. So I formatted one, and run the games from the hdd I didn't want to format. So all is well. Thanks.
That's how i did it up until very recently, store everything I want to keep on a drive separate from the one with windows on. Fortunately, migrating from an nForce 4 SLI to an nForce 650i did work, to my surprise, but with different manufacturers you're obviously far less likely to get lucky. Why up until recently? Well, the drive I stored all the stuff on (Samsung 400GB) has developed a very bizarre problem, if anybody can help me out, that'd be great. Essentially, when I first turn on the PC, the hard disk spins up and down several times in quick succession, seemingly at random. You'd think hardware problem or power problem, right? So I used the same cables to plug in a WD 250GB drive, and that worked perfectly, so I thought the hard drive was damaged or defective. However, once it stops spinning up and down it works fine. Fine that is, until you access the root folder. You can look at any folder within the drive and its contents, load games, run programs, whatever, but as soon as you do something that involves the main folder in the drive, it clicks twice, then spins up again, and whatever application accessed the drive crashes, and isn't closable from the task manager, if you unplug it, the crash stops, and the drive disappears from view, with a bubble that says Delayed write failure F:\$Mft If you plug the drive back in it doesn't appear in disk management or my computer, but does in device manager, but with a yellow icon about "no driver installed". Update driver finds nothing, if you try to disable it, windows crashes and isn't recoverable until you unplug the drive. If you leave it plugged in after this has happened, 5-10 minutes later, a BSOD appears 0x000007E stating a .SYS file within windows. What is going on?
