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| Thread ID: 60655 | 2005-08-09 02:33:00 | New mobo, old HDD. | echothreezero (6612) | Press F1 |
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| 379637 | 2005-08-09 02:33:00 | Hi, an old machine just died - (mobo and power supply gone), I have a newer machine that has an old, almost dead win 98 drive. I want to put my windows 2000 HDD (ntfs volume) into the other machine and boot it. What do I need to do so that I can essentially swap the old win 98 volume with the newer win 2000 volume? Cheers |
echothreezero (6612) | ||
| 379638 | 2005-08-09 02:40:00 | Just chuck the 2000 hdd, on the new mobo, jumper it to master, put it on master in the BIOS. And jumper the 98 hdd to slave, put it on slave in the BIOS, if u still want to use it. (Format it). Or if the 98 hdd is ready to die just smash it up and chuck it out. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 379639 | 2005-08-09 02:46:00 | if you mean install a drive which already has an os on it to a totally different motherboard you will have some 'fun' wiht drivers it most likely wont boot......however try it anyway and there are two options if it wont boot.......try safe mode then load the mobo drivers or run a 'repair' install on the system.......... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 379640 | 2005-08-09 02:49:00 | You are indeed Speedy as your moniker suggests! I just tried this and it boots, but as it is about to display the windows 2000 splash screen, I get a BSOD saying inaccessible boot device - what have I done wrong? Cheers Edit: same prob booting in safe mode. |
echothreezero (6612) | ||
| 379641 | 2005-08-09 02:57:00 | Umm try changing the bootdisk in the BIOS to the 2000 hdd . It maybe checking for the 98 hdd . Make sure if u have the 2k and 98 hdd in the system, that the 2000 is on master and the 98 on slave . But yup you might have to do a system repair . Boot from the 2000 cd, and select repair, if it gives u the option . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 379642 | 2005-08-09 02:58:00 | It's not looking for the W98 disk. It's booting W2000 from the primary boot device. You didn't do anything wrong. Except expecting it to boot, then work. :( As drcspy says, that W2000 was installed on one machine. The installer recognised all the hardware and configured the system to work on that machine. You put it on a different computer and it didn't work. Has the disk got a directory called "C:\I386" ? If so, boot to a "command line " ("DOS"), and run "i386\winnt.exe", for an installation. You'll need to know the resgistartion code. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 379643 | 2005-08-09 03:05:00 | Thought as much guys - I was just hoping for an easy fix to get the machine running for a few days. I was using the win 2000 machine as a file and print server, and the win 98 was a spare workstation, but had newer internals. Both are going to the tip in exchange for a new purpose-built file server and a new workstation, but was hoping to have my file serer operational in the meantime. Oh well, I'll just fire the win 2000 drive as a slave on a newer win 2000 workstation and make it a temp server. Cheers guys for the blazingly quick response! |
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