| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 105766 | 2009-12-13 19:54:00 | HHD won't boot from any other PC! | Chris09 (15218) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 839218 | 2009-12-13 19:54:00 | Hey all Having a little trouble at the moment, just fixing a PC up for a friend. Basically it's a 1.3GhZ Celeron/512MB DDR/IDE 80G/IDE 40G/WinXP Home Ed. I booted it up, it works fine, just slow as they said. I realized I didn't put the Ethernet plug in - they don't have one because they use dial up. I thought about driving to my supplier and getting a freebie PCI Ethernet card, but then I realized I could just move the HDD and work on it from another PC. Turns out I'm wrong. I've tried it on two of my spare, fulling working without-error PCs Intel Core 2 Duo 2.9GhZ/2G DDR Intel Celron 2.7GhZ/1G DDR I continually get the blue error screen after it boots from BIOS. I cannot get in to Safe mode either, as it just restarts. I then turned off automatic restart to see the error message it is.. A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. Technical Information: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0XF78AD528, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000) There most likely will be some malware on it, tis why it's slow but it's working on their PC fine. Well I don't know about any HDD controllers at all, perhaps something in BIOS I'm suppose to change for some.. reason? Well, I don't know if it's configured and terminated.. lol. Normally one would just plug in the HDD, and if it was driver related I could access Safe Mode and fix it, but it appears to be a hard ware problem. And the HDD isn't corrupted, because if it was, I wouldn't be able to run it on the other PC. The error message appears on both of my machines. If nothing works I'll go get me a PCI Erthernet card, which I assume with a download of the correct driver... which actually could take awhile to find.. would work. Otherwise if I fix this, I'll just be able to carry on, easy peasy. But I'm stuck as to what the problem is... Thanks for the help in advance! PS: I think the reason is.. that the hard drive contains all the drivers and hardware set up from their old system, and won`t work with the new hardware in my PC... Just double checking to see whether that is the case. If it is, I need to go get me a PCI card then? |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 839219 | 2009-12-13 20:10:00 | Did you jumper it before adding it to the dual core?? You cant add it to another system and boot from it. Since the hardware is different. Thats why its crashing. Change the boot disk in the BIOS, to the dual core's hdd then boot from the dual core's hdd, then scan it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 839220 | 2009-12-13 20:25:00 | Nope, I haven't done any jumping, nor have I actually physically done it before. Yeah, I figured as much. What do you mean by scan it? |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 839221 | 2009-12-13 20:31:00 | Scan it for malware, if thats why you're adding it to the dual core's case. What kind of hdd is the dual core booting from?? IDE or SATA?? Did you add the celeron's hdd by itself to one of the dual core's IDE connections? Or put it on something like the cd's IDE connection?? If you did, it needs to be jumpered (its on the back to slave) or master, depending on what the main IDE device is set to | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 839222 | 2009-12-13 20:45:00 | You can't just take the HDD from one machine and try to boot it in another. Since the hardware is completely different you will have problems (most common being BSOD like you are having now) Even if it did work, you'd end up changing all the drivers around and it then may no longer work in the original computer, and you could end up with even more problems than you started with. If you want to scan for viruses, don't boot from it. Boot from your normal HDD and scan it from there. Then put it back where it belongs and do any extra work there. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 839223 | 2009-12-13 20:53:00 | I'm also wanting to install MSE, give it a general clean, fix email problems as well, not just for Malware, otherwise I would have slaved it. The Dual Core is only booting from the HDD I'm trying to work on, but everything is IDE. Well I'm trying to use it on my Intel Celeron 2.7GhZ/1G RAM and it still doesn't work, so yes. It is that conflict of hard ware. So... my only option is to go and get a PCI Ethernet card for that PC, since all mine are onboard for my PCs, stick it in, find the driver for it from another PC, install, and then I'm sweet as sugar? |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 839224 | 2009-12-13 20:57:00 | Just get the cheapest Realtek 8139 card you can find. They are cheap chips but you can get drivers for just about every OS on the planet for them. Then you can use it for anything else in the future |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 839225 | 2009-12-13 21:11:00 | Excellent, I've rang my supplier, gonna go get one now. =D Cheers guys! |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 839226 | 2009-12-13 21:58:00 | Hey all Having a little trouble at the moment, just fixing a PC up for a friend. I realized I could just move the HDD and work on it from another PC. Turns out I'm wrong. Not to be rude but what are you doing "fixing" it if you don't even know that? Of course you can't move the drive - if you were lucky enough to have it boot it would then have replaced all their drivers. If you want to scan for malware, slave the drive or use a USB connection. Leave it to a pro before you make things worse. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 839227 | 2009-12-13 22:34:00 | On the other hand since it couldn't boot and replace the drivers there should be no damage done and he just learnt something which is always a good thing | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 5 | |||||