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Hard Drive caddy with xp pro

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by tdowling18

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I have just bought a new computer with vista on it. I have an old hard drive with xp pro on it, i have put this hard drive in a caddy and tried to boot this drive through the USB.

XP pro begins to load then it goes into blue screen of death. I have run the chkdsk on the disk and it fixes any errors. I then have tried to run the xp repair on the caddy drive and it won't register that there is xp on that hard drive.

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by thefool

Try one of the following:

1) go into your bios and swap the order of your boot devices , as the usb is get bumped up in front

2) boot with a xp cd, go into the recover console and change the boot flag on the usb drive, so it has no boot partions

3) connect the usb drive after vista has started!

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