Jerrick
New Member
K, I have one harddrive in my old Compaq computer, and it has the windows XP os on it, and thats all.
I figured I could just take this harddrive and put it into my newer comp (See sig) and it will read it, then boot into xp. Ive done this before and it has always worked. But not this time.
When I move the drive over, first tiem it ended up with a ntldr error, and now trying again, it brings up the menu as if I pushed f8 at post, and asks if I want to do safe mode, last known configuration, etc..., and any of those options load for a second then my computer restart.
Is there anyway to get this to work, or a way to boot into windows xp? I tried the cd but when trying to run setup from a prompt, I cant because "This program cannot ron in DOS mode". Any single cd,floppy,flash boot disk I can use to get me up and running?
I dont mind anything that has to do with a reformat, there is nothing on this drive that I need to keep.
I figured I could just take this harddrive and put it into my newer comp (See sig) and it will read it, then boot into xp. Ive done this before and it has always worked. But not this time.
When I move the drive over, first tiem it ended up with a ntldr error, and now trying again, it brings up the menu as if I pushed f8 at post, and asks if I want to do safe mode, last known configuration, etc..., and any of those options load for a second then my computer restart.
Is there anyway to get this to work, or a way to boot into windows xp? I tried the cd but when trying to run setup from a prompt, I cant because "This program cannot ron in DOS mode". Any single cd,floppy,flash boot disk I can use to get me up and running?
I dont mind anything that has to do with a reformat, there is nothing on this drive that I need to keep.
