Boot Problem on my PC

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Laugh123

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So i have a old Dell Windows XP (genuine) PC.

And since i had a 250 GB HDD, i bought a 1TB one.
Now i installed Win XP over the new HDD and was dual-booting them.
1, Win XP Home old (on 250 GB HDD)
2, Win XP Home new (on 1TB HDD)

My boot file looks like this: http://imgur.com/Z18RBYP
Now the problem is I bought a new Win 7 PC and would like to move the 250 GB HDD there.
BUT problems....
Problem 1: Old PC will not start with the 1TB HDD alone. (I believe no boot info on 1TB HDD...)
Error Message: None it just sits on the Black screen after showing me the Bios info and HDD/CD drive info.
Before i was getting a Error (After i removed 250 HDD): "Drive 4 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-4" which i fixed by resetting settings in bios.


Problem 2 (Lets Ignore this first): New Win 7 PC will not dual boot, I can use Win7 fine and can browse 250GB HDD fine.
 
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drtweak

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Ok so your saying you just "Moved" the hard drive from one PC the other Other?

That will not work for MANY reasons

1) The XP on the 250GB doesn't even have the right drivers for the new PC so even if you did get it to boot from the hard drive it won't
2) The reason why you can't dual boot is because you didn't install XP on that machine so windows 7 which is probably the default drive set in the bios doesn't know XP even exist because its not in the windows 7 Boot loader.

Now IF XP was installed on the same machine there are ways to rebuild the boot loader to see XP but that will ONLY work if the PC are the same.

Now also another thing for dual booting with XP/Server 2003 and older with Vista and Server 2008 and newer is that they use different boot loaders to begin with. Only way i know to make sure they dual boot is to install XP first and THEN install Windows 7.
 
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Laugh123

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Thanks Radikal, i will try that guide soon..
But first i NEED to fix the WIN XP 1TB to start on its own.
Because i want to send that Old PC to office!!! :D


Drtweak, Yes that's exactly how i did it, I stick the old HDD in the new Case.. lazy to copy 200gb of files.. or the program settings! HAHA
I see your point but at least I can try to dual-boot 7/XP and see how it reacts aha! (And copy the needed drivers from the New PC's CD.)
 
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drtweak

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Yea I've tried that before with nothing but failure. You can always just hit what ever button it takes to get to the boot menu first and then select the 250 hard drive to boot from. If it BSOD's on you then yea no way you're gonna get that to boot. I'd do that first before messing around with your bootloader
 
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