Re-use old harddrive in new pc -WITH OS
Dear Rob,
In one of your articles you said that it was sometimes possible to re-use an old harddrive with a disc-image on completely new hardware. --"with some tweaking, and possibly a lot of tweaking".
I have just built a new pc - with ASUS P5E-VM HDMI board and Intel quad-core, 4gb ram, etc. and am trying to reuse the disc image from my old harddrive as the data is more important to me than the pc, (the old motherboard died.) But the old OS, (XP Pro), won't get past a blue-screen warning: "STOP: 0 X 0000007B"
Could you elaborate on this discussion please or give me some other alternatives. I could certainly use any help you could give.
Thank you,
Jiglow
Reply To Wise Monkey And Rob
MY OS IS XP PRO. IF I UNDERSTAND ROB CORRECTLY, AND, TAKING A HINT FROM A TECH AT FRY'S, I COULD INSTALL A FRESS XP PRO ON THE NEW HARDDRIVE, BUT THEN POINT ALL OTHER PROGRAMS TO ANOTHER HARDDRIVE, (THE OLD ONE), AND PROCEED FROM THERE. IS THIS A VIABLE STATEGY?
THANKS FOR THE PROMPT REPLIES
JIGLOW:confused:
Old HDD New Hware-It was easy
Sorry, I did not post this on the earlier post. I had a meeting.
I am either going to look like an idiot or many of you will find this interestingly (is that a word?) simple.
Re-cap.
Objective:
A. Build new, inexpensive computer to replace old IDE based computer where mobo died. Main programs comptroller needed to run...Quick Books and Outlook...nothing more. Internet surfing...woohoooo:p
B. To take old HDD (Western Digital...for this build that is important to know) with XP-PRO OS plug it in and basically let it rip.
C. Hook up with comptroller :D Remember she is hot...
New System:
ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 MOBO...
2gb Crucial 240-Pin Dimm 128Mxx64 DDR2 PC2-5300 Unbuffered...
1 IDE Western Digital 80gb HDD manufactured March 2004...
1 LG IDE 52x32x52 CD drive circa 2004...1 Intel Core2 Duo Processor 2.53 GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066 MHz FSB, 45nm
1 G-lite Cooler Master Case
Total cost after mail in rebates...$300.00
Western Digital HDD's come with their Jumper in a neutral position. After some research they are the only HDD manufacturer that does this. So, when you "daisy-chain" IDE devices the Bios will disable the HDD and push it down on the boot order leaving only the CD drive to boot from which, does you no good if the Bios has disabled the HDD.
Moved Jumper to master position. Daisy Chained IDE CD drive (Mobo has only 1 IDE plug)...HDD magically enabled in Bios and moved to second position in Boot order...Placed, this is important for Newbies or "Dangerous" builders like myself (I know just enough to be dangerous):eek: XP-PRO SERVICE PACK 2 DISC in CD drive... Like an idiot that was not thinking I originally tried a repair with an OLD XP-PRO SP-1A disk..As we all know, New to old= Good...Old to new=Bad....Booted from CD and did a simple repair of the installation...With PC's I have found the most elementary of solutions is usually the winner.
OLD HDD, New H-ware environment running smooth and easy in 28 mins...All that was left was the installation of Mobo drivers...
I hope this did not make me look too much like an idiot and will hopefully help someone that was in my same spot.
For those of you that care...Comptroller Hook-up is still a possibility:p