Toshiba M200 Portege not booting into XP

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Hello everyone,
I recently got two Toshiba M200's and I'm working on restoring them. However, they don't have optical drives and they won't boot from usb, so I took out the hard drive and installed Windows XP onto the Toshiba's hdd from another laptop. The installation was successful, but when I put the drive with XP on it into the Portege, it reads the drive, then delivers a quick blue screen that flashed so fast I couldn't read it, and then reboots itself. Any ideas how to make this work? Thanks.
 
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Read a few things online about booting it off an external CD/DVD drive, I don't remember if I worked on that exact model, but it was a Toshiba small laptop and it took a bit of luck on my part to get a drive that worked with it. I think the one I used was a cheap one I got from ebay. I have 3 external DVD drives, only one of them worked.
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That is what happens when you swap drives from one hardware spec to another. You need to install Windows on the system you will using it on. I think those systems you need special external CD drives to boot from. If you do a web search you will see some options for that. I am pretty sure I had the same or similar model, and it just happened that one of my external optical drives worked with it.
 
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But here's the thing: I tried the m200s drive with XP I just installed onto it and put it into another Toshiba laptop and it booted up no problem.

 
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It depends on the hardware, biggest issue with crashing is the chipset drivers, SATA controllers and such. It's not a 100% all the time rule, but it happens often enough that saying "don't move hard drives from system to system" is a lot safer suggestion than anything else. Even if the system boots you can end up with funny slowness or stability issues.
 
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Yes, I usually try not to, but I was desperate. This M200 doesn't want to work.
 
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Read a few things online about booting it off an external CD/DVD drive, I don't remember if I worked on that exact model, but it was a Toshiba small laptop and it took a bit of luck on my part to get a drive that worked with it. I think the one I used was a cheap one I got from ebay. I have 3 external DVD drives, only one of them worked.
 
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