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Switching to New comp Question

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I just got an Abit I35 Pro, with Dual Core 6850, 8800GTX and I have a questions about switchin my hard drive. I am currently on my old 80gig IDE drive. Has XP home on it, with tons and tons of files that I would like to keep. I wanted to dual boot Vista and XP on two seperate drives, and so I put in my 80gig IDE to see if that would work first (I had an old P4 2.4c, ASUS P4P800 deluxe) and while it recognized it, when I tried to boot up windows, it gave me what I assume was a blue screen of death midway through, and automatically rebooted my computer. I had to get back on to do some stuff so I put the same hard drive in my old comp, and it works fine.

Any ideas? Do you need to know anything else about my setup. I want to be able to use this drive if possible.
 
You're going to have a heap of trouble trying to boot into an OS that was configured for a different computer. I'm not saying that it can't be done--I really don't know for certain. In some instances it may be possible, and in others it probably isn't. In either case it's going to take a hell of a lot of work.

You're likely to be much better off installing a new OS on the new HD. Once the OS is installed (be it Vista or XP) you'll be able to at least read the data from the old HD when booted into the new OS. It will still take quite a bit of work trying to get the old OS bootable. With the new OS online, just backup the data from the old HD, format it, and re-install the second OS.

Mark.
 
Put the drive in your computer and copy all your files (or the whole drive if you want) to your new computer, format the drive and then you can use it.
 
Yeah, don't try to boot off of it. Just boot your new OS, and then access the files on the old hard drive directly. The new OS should be able to see all the files on your old drive.
 
If you'd like to use the old drive on the new system, with OS intact, you'd have to do a repair install on it. Boot the windows CD, choose the same partition that has the old Windows installation on it, and proceed to install XP. The installation should detect your old installation and ask if you'd like to repair it. Choose yes, and all your files should be left intact. Here's more info on WPA, though:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.php

To dual boot, the last OS you install would have to detect the previously installed OS's to pop up in the boot menu. If you have Vista installed already, then you'll need to edit your boot.ini file or something.
 
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