Building a computer HD problem.

[Jester DTM]

I took the HD out of my mother in laws, Gateway PIII 700 system and put it into a new Athlon XP 2100 system it will not boot. <br><br>Now the HD is running WIN XP PRO. I can put it back in the PIII system and it works just fine. As soon as I put it into the Athlon system is brings up that screen that ask you if you want to boot to <br>safe mode<br>safe mode with blah blah<br><br>last known working condition<br><br>normal windows.<br><br>then it almost boots and goes to a screen that says<br><br>Windows has detected an error and has stopped to protect your computer<br>please check for virus's, check your HD for finalization, run Chkdsk /f etc. then restart. <br><br>Here is my question, the HD works normally in it's original system could this be becuase of XP? That thing that XP identifys the system its in and won't work in another. And the other question is can i get around this or is it Reformat time? <p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><a href="http://www.thzclan.com/cam" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thzclan.com/cam/jester/thb_ccam.jpg" border="0"></a></td><td><img src="http://www.thzclan.com/kirabby/Eebay/spam.gif" align="middle"></td><td><b><a href="mailto:jester@thzclan.com">996</a></b><br><a href=http://www.thzclan.com>Cerberus of THZ*</a><br><a href=http://www.xmenclan.org>XMEN</a><br><b><a href=http://www.dragontalonmercs.com>Dragon Talon Merc</a> </b></td> <td> <img src="http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/jester/mi ... </p><i></i>

[Atheist]

I had that problem too.<br><br>The only way around it was to go pop the HD in another computer, back up data.. then reformat and reinstall XP with the HD on the new system.<br><br>But there might be other solutions. <p></p><i></i>

[XMEN Iceman]

Yep, sorry to say that XP is not near as flexible as older versions. You can remove the ENUM registry entry in other OS' and that makes the OS redetect all the devices, but you can't do that in XP. It does what you just described. The only way that I have found after doing alot of digging in the Microsoft Help areas is to reinstall. <br><br>I am sorry Jester, it is a buncha crap, but that is what XP does. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p><table border="0"><tr><td><embed align="left" src="http://www.thzclan.com/avatars/ezice.swf" menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="217" height="166" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/dow ... <td><table border="0" style='Filter: Shadow(Color=#BB1403,Direction=255)'><tr><td><span class='usertitle'>XMEN Iceman [DTM]<br>Founder and Leader of the Base Tribes XMEN Clan<br>Proud member of the Dragon Talon Mercenaries teamplayers Guild<br>Member of THZ - The Hounds of Zeus clan<br><br>"You weren't much of a challenge" - T2 bot after killing Iceman<br><br>- click on avatar for links - no, not sausage links!</span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></p><i></i>

[Jester DTM]

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[XMEN Gambit]

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[XMENPorsche]

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[Jester DTM]

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[Droopy enD]

my father in law had the same problem, had to reformat on new machine to fix it....don't know any other way to do it. <p><p align="center"><BR>"You know what, Bub......I just killed you"<BR><br><BR><img src="http://members.cox.net/anachman/persona ... br><BR>AKA Goremonger[DTM], eS|Goremonger, XMEN|Gore|DTM<BR><br><BR><bold><font color="#FFOOOO">Proud member and Loose Fiend of the enDless</bold></font><BR><br><BR><br>Proud Member - Dragon Talon Mercenaries<br><BR><br>Proud Member - XMEN Clan<BR><br>Proud Member - endless Steel<br><BR><br><BR><br>"Damn cartoon dogs!".....Quote<br></p></p><i></i>