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| 701272 | 2008-08-29 09:33:00 | I want to swap harddrives between 2 different PCs. Both hardd drives have Win XP installed, one is 40GB the other 80Gb. I get the error message NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart. What is the easiest way to deal with this? |
bpt2 (6653) | ||
| 701273 | 2008-08-29 09:42:00 | This (support.microsoft.com) Altho its not a good idea, swapping hdd's, if both dont have the info on them for the hardware, that was on the mobo You'll probably have to do a repair if the mobo's weren't the same model/brand. And had different hardware Unless its trying to boot from a USB flash drive or floppy, which doesnt have dos on it / theyre not bootable. Remove them. And make sure the bootdisk in the BIOS is the hdd |
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| 701274 | 2008-08-29 09:44:00 | A repair with the Win XP disk? | bpt2 (6653) | ||
| 701275 | 2008-08-29 09:47:00 | Yup or if a floppy or usb flash drive is still connected / in the disk drive, remove it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 701276 | 2008-08-29 09:50:00 | You should be leaving the OS on the machine it was installed on. You are likely to get a lot more errors if you just put one hdd with the system installed on to a different machine What you should be doing is to image the hdd and then write it on the drive you are replacing it with. So if you want to swap both computers HDD's - then you would image both HDD's and write the image on to the opposite HDD's. So the OS stays on the same computer, only the drives are different |
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