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by bradhester76

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hello,

I am trying to move my hard drive to another system as well add a slave drive. Reason the new system allows for more ram. the motherboard is an asus on the new one. the comp boots fine on the old comp that I am taking it out of but I get bthis error. I do not have the disk anymore so any help would be great.

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by older mycroft

You can't move an installed HDD from one system to another.

The installation on your HDD is for the system it was installed to run on. It [b] WON'T RUN[/b] on any other system but that one.

You'd do better to upgrade the ram in the present system, adding the slave insitu also.

I would have assumed that the 'other' system would already have a working installed system in it.

Your only other recourse is to purchase a new installation disc.

by mjd420nova

Without the install CD you're in a fix. With the CD you could boot to it and do a repair of the installed OS and it will them characterize the installation to the new hardware. You could install the new drive as master, install an new OS and then add the old drive as a slave. You could then have access to all the data on the old drive.

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