Motherboard rejects a hard drive...?

Drenlin

Drenlin

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So I've got an older Mobo from an HP that I'm trying to make work, as it's the only spare one we have with an AGP slot. Problem is, it won't boot to the hard drives that we want to use. Any other HD boots fine...tried vanilla XP, ubuntu,and xubuntu.

The ones with problems use current XP. One of them just gets a disc read error(works fine in the computer it's normally in), and the other one gets to the screen that asks if you want to bot windows in safe mode, last good config, as normal, etc...but when something is selected it reboots.

How do I troubleshoot this?
 
You can't just pull a hard drive out of one computer and expect it to boot in another. While this will work if the hardware is similar enough, most of the time you have to install the hard drive and then reinstall the operating system. The problem is that the operating system is configured to work with one specific set of hardware, and if it's all of a sudden presented with a completely new set of hardware it can cause major problems.
 
On your disc which doesn't boot, is the jumper on the master position?
Can you see this HD into the BIOS?
 
yhahh said:
On your disc which doesn't boot, is the jumper on the master position?
Can you see this HD into the BIOS?
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That's not the problem in this situation, read his post again. He's has taken hard drives from other systems with windows already on it and expecting it to boot up on a totally different machine.
 
johnb35 said:
That's not the problem in this situation, read his post again. He's has taken hard drives from other systems with windows already on it and expecting it to boot up on a totally different machine.
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Yeah with xp this wont work. The op must wipe the hard drive clean and strart fresh.

Anyone who doesnt know: It is possible to swap a hdd out with Win7 loaded and it will still function. Win7 will automatically search for the drivers, install them, and restart the pc.
 
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