Blue screen after swapping hard drive

[amanua]

I moved a 40gb western digital hard drive from a computer that has the gigabyte mother board and AMD processor into a new computer with Asus motherboard and pent4 1.8 processor and when I turn on the system, it gives blue screen
Since there is no backup of data, I dont want to format and install the operating system.How can i get the system boot .

 

[franklin97355]

Put it back in the old system and back up the data. You could also try putting this drive into another computer as the second drive and backing up the data. Other methods are available but you are in jeopardy of losing the data if you try them.

The answer is "42"

 

[vacunita]

Of course it won't boot, windows doesn't take kindly to having hardware changed. So it's looking for hardware from the old machine and in its place gets totally different hardware.

follow franklin97355 advice and slave it to another machine or put it back in its original machine and hope it boots.

You could also try a repair install of windows which would technically not affect the data installed but its not guaranteed it wont, of course you will probably have to re activate windows if you do this.





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[mrlucio79]

what happens when you boot into safe mode? If there is no way of backup, I am sure a reinstall of XP would work. Just don't format and that would leave all your data intact.