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I've seen other discussions around this, but haven't seen a resolution, just wondering. I removed a SATA HDD from my HP Pavilion and inserted into the top bay on the front of the Gateway. The drive is recognized in the BIOS and Boot Manager but when I select the drive in the front bay as the boot drive, I get an error, "Windows failed to Start" with the choice of start windows normally or recover, neither of which get me anywhere. Both the existing Gateway internal drive and the drive from the HP are Vista, only difference is the Gateway drive is 64 bit, the drive from the HP is 32 bit. When I put the HP drive back into the Pavilion it boots just fine -of course !!
Ay clues please ?
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Yes. Save off your personal, important files (docs, music, etc)

Gather the relevant drivers from Gateway for that motherboard and chipset, and that Windows version.
Install Windows (whatever version)
Install all the relevant drivers
Reinstall all your applications
Copy your personal docs back onto the new Windows install on the Gateway. Or simply designate a folder tree on a second drive as the location for personal stuff.
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I removed a SATA HDD from my HP Pavilion and inserted into the top bay on the front of the Gateway.
then...
...but when I select the drive in the front bay as the boot drive, I get an error, "Windows failed to Start"

When I put the HP drive back into the Pavilion it boots just fine -of course !!

This is to be expected. The motherboard and chipset drivers are different between the HP and the Gateway. Sometimes moving the HDD to a new PC works, sometimes it doesn't. Here, it didn't.

A new reinstall on the Gateway would be indicated here.
 
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Wow, that was fast, thanks for the quick reply. Just to clarify, so I should backup the HP drive then treat it like a new drive in the Gateway by installing Vista (guess I need a Vista CD) then restore ?
Thanks for your help
 
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Yes. Save off your personal, important files (docs, music, etc)

Gather the relevant drivers from Gateway for that motherboard and chipset, and that Windows version.
Install Windows (whatever version)
Install all the relevant drivers
Reinstall all your applications
Copy your personal docs back onto the new Windows install on the Gateway. Or simply designate a folder tree on a second drive as the location for personal stuff.
 
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