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kanoke2

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So i recently have purchased brand new computer parts and thought one good way to save money was to use my old hard drive from my previous computer which was an hp pre-build.

Once i had all my parts installed and powered up, i booted up my computer and it would just manage to get to the "windows starting" screen and then give me the blue screen.

I have tested all my RAM slots and they are working properly, I've reset my CMOS, and i have tested my GPU and it all works properly. I'd really appreciate if someone knew a solution or had suggestions that could help
Thank you for your time

My specs:
Asus M5A97 R2.0 AM3+
PNY Nvidia GTX 650
Corsair Vengence DRAM DDR3 1333 MHZ x2 4GB
Rosewill 600W Power Supply
AMD FX-4100 @ 3.6GHZ AM3+

Heres a little more information on the subject, when my hard drive was in my HP computer it originally had vista, but I then decided it was time to upgrade to windows 7. So to answer some questions windows 7 is currently on the Hard Drive
 
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jackson1420

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If your machine could virtualize then you could just virtualize your old system and have the entire environment (Everything retained from a-z)

But unfortunately you can't just plug in a hard drive used in another system to a new system.

What OS is the old system on? My recommendation is to backup & restore the data to the new machine. If you have software with licenses make sure you can export those.
 
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dalethepcman

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Really purchasing a new copy of windows would be the easiest solution, and as I am no licensing expert for retail windows I am not sure if this would technically be legal to re-use in either of these ways, but I will pass on two methods that may work.

The first method will either work, or completely destroy your OS. I have had 50/50 luck using this method.

If the HDD still boot's in your HP, all you need to do is restart in safe mode, open the device manager, and delete (including drivers) the video card and all motherboard components (system devices, storage controllers, processors, USB controllers and network/sound cards if integrated) Do not allow the system to restart until all hardware has been deleted. Place the HDD into the new system, boot into safe mode and install the chipset drivers for your new motherboard, restart normally and install your video card drivers.

Alternately you can borrow a retail or OEM windows disc from a friend, install it and use the product key from the side of your HP then use the telephone verification and call in your product key to activate windows. This works 100% of the time.
 
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Every new system built in the last 3-4 years has had AHCI (or raid which is the same thing) set as the default, so this shouldn't be an issue.

This is assuming the HP system was running windows 7 though.
 
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jackson1420

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True I know what drive is being used. HP's have been around all over the place for so long and I work on more old ones than new ones for some reason so I just assume HPs are always old.

It just reminded me of that issue.

That suggestion of removing all hardware I don't think will make a difference but it couldn't hurt to try it. I am not sure what exactly is tied but the OS ties itself to a branded serial or some under layer of the board. The hardware IDs are always the same no matter what driver you have installed. But that is interesting to know it has worked before.
 
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Usually as long as the HAL doesn't change from single core to multi core, the OS can recover and install the appropriate drivers although that can be fixed as well. Most failures are when going from AMD to Intel and vice versa.

 
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