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by supermomo

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Hi all,

Have got two Dell latitude C600 laptop, same specs except the processor which is of different speed. Wanted to move one of the W2K Professional configured harddisk to the other C600 laptop with a different processor. When booting up, it show's inaccessible boot device. anyway to resolve it??

Tried doing the same (moving harddisk from one laptop to the other) on laptop with exactly the same specs with no problem.

Anyone could help????

Puzzled

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by sgt_shultz

is hard drive recognised in BIOS? is drive fat or ntfs? can you see drive with boot disk?
check out boot.ini file maybe...compare both and look it up on support.microsoft.com to get more info on boot.ini, what is does and how to edit it...

by briantruitt

Make sure that the jumper settings are the same on the hard drive that you're putting in the laptop as the one that was previously in there. If those settings are correct and you're still getting the inaccessable boot device bsod, try booting to the W2K disk, don't choose the repair option on the first options screen, but choose install Windows 2000 now. It will do a search for previous installations of W2K and find yours and that's when you do the repair. It will just reload the system files and that's it. It might put you back a bit as far as updates go, but might save some time in the long run. Third choice: Aloha Bob's PC Relocator ;-]

by wlbowers

This happens when the chipset drivers for the ide controller is different from the originating drive.

Even though they are the same model unless they came off the same production line there is a chance the motherboard is different.

You can boot to the os cd and perform what is called an inplace upgrade.

This is discussed in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q292175.

Good Luck Lee

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