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38809	2002-03-11 23:38:00	Hi ya folks. Ok, i ripped my h/d out and plonked it into another comp(Dell)(removed this computers h/d 1st) so i now have my h/d sitting in a mates comp. - Bios(Dell) recognises the new h/d fine. - Boots normally until it hits my Boot menu giving WinXP or Win2k After then it crashes...not matter which OS i choose i get the same error msg. Blue Screen: STOP 0x0000007b(..........) In Accessable Boot Device This is the error msg i'm getting...so can anyone help or point me in the right direction? Assumptions: - Cables are correctly plugged in. - Not a WinXP Serial prob(defined from various components) because the same error occurs choosing Win2k	Guest (0)
38810	2002-03-11 23:56:00	It could be a number of things. Have a look here: support.microsoft.com and see how you get on.	Guest (0)
38811	2002-03-12 00:04:00	Hi, It's funny your brought this up, the same thing happened last night when we were building a new computer for a mate of ours and we swapped his old HD to the new computer. It took a bit of fooling around but it looks like WinXP & 2000 don't like to be switched to another computer set as Master, as it's been installed to run on it's own original computers settings. Basically we switched the IDE settings and then eventually ended up Fdisking it and doing a clean WinXP install (She's running pretty sweet now). This is just my own note, but I think you'd run into less problems if the HD you were swapping had 95 or 98 as the OS. But this is just from my own experiance, as others have swapped with XP and 2000 without any probs. Best of luck, Daniel	Guest (0)
38812	2002-03-12 00:46:00	Daniel's right. You could boot off the cd and 'repair' Windows.	Guest (0)
38813	2002-03-12 04:00:00	It is a Terrible Idea to move a hard disk and try to run an OS. Even if it seems to work, there will be evil things lurking. There's a reason for an 'install process'. It would be much easier and quicker to expand a compressed image of an operating sytem than to work through checking the hardware on each computer. MS would sell their OSs like that if it would work.	Guest (0)
38814	2002-03-16 01:47:00	Ok, thank you everyone...the prob is now solved and everythings hums along nicely. <<It could be a number of things. Have a look here: support.microsoft.com and see how you get on.>> EXCELLENT!, :) <<This is just my own note, but I think you'd run into less problems if the HD you were swapping had 95 or 98 as the OS>> Uh Haa...i done this before and it's never been a prob with Win95/98. <<It is a Terrible Idea to move a hard disk and try to run an OS. Even if it seems to work, there will be evil things lurking.>> True, but it seemd the easiet option which i wanted to try 1st. Few lil hickups along the way but eventually it worked out fine... So thank you everyone for your help :)	Guest (0)
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