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by baxt76

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If you cant just move a hard drive into a new computer because of the drivers etc.. how do you tell the hard drive that your moving it into a new computer? I'm running xp pro on the drive.

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by patb071

Setup your old harddrive as a slave and install it in your computer with your othere hard drive still in. Then all your information will be on the secondary harddrive. You can't just tell a computer you are doing something. Even by having installing the correct drivers you may run into a problem with the OS because of a different MAC address.
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by wizard-09

Are not needed, you plug the hard drive in to the computer, either by IDE or STATA what ever your using, set the jumper to master is this is to be the master drive and then edit the BIOS to tell it to boot from hard drive you only need drivers if your going to be doing RIAD as a home user i dont think you will be doing this?

by Member 23932737

start your PC from safemode and remove all the drivers related to the current hardware configuration, then move the HDD to the new environment, windows will automatically detect the new hardware and install its drivers. I've tried this with IDE HDD not sure if it will work under a RAID configuration

by slayer_

That you run that prepares Windows to be a ghost image, it removes all drivers ready to be transported.

Google is your only hope on this one if no one before me has suggested this. I read this once, but forgot to do it when I changed my computer.

by slayer_

Like your old mobo was single core and your new one is double. You won't even be able to boot to safe mode. You gotta reinstall Windows overtop of your old install.

by oh smeg

I've used this to move from a Slot 1 M'Board with 2 CPU's to 2 Quad Core Xenon's without a problem in the past for a customer though personally it's not something I like doing.

That was a special case though and they required the system up and running ASAP a week latter I reinstalled the OS in use and gave then a new clean install to work with instead of the mess that was on the Original HDD.

Col

by snuffy09

Backup your pics, music, video ect and your profile folder inside the documents and settings directory.

do a fresh install of windows with your HD in the new machine. Restore your "profile" and other data, reinstall your software.

It is always better reinstall your OS when switching over to new Hardware (motherboard especially) anyways.

Or

If you want to spend some money you can pick up a backup/ghost software like Acronis and and make an image of your current HD.

Lotsa Luck

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