Moving a HD to a new hardware

[Harold]

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Hi,
I moved (installed) my HD from my "running well" older pc, with xp pro,
programs, documents and so on, to a new one (new cpu, more memory, new video
and sound card, etc). But when I turned on, I got error message OS LOADING
ERROR, or something like that. Then, I tried Norton Recovery System doing a
MBR fix. No more error message, but now a blinking cursor at top left. I
created a Windows XP boot disk to start the computer, but got a missing
hall.dll. Then I tried a windows repair reinstall, it seemed to go ok but
when the instalation process restarts to coninue the instalation the pc
hangs. I'm sure there's a way to recover my system before I do a less smart
clean install. What to do now?
Harold.

 

[Jerry]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?)

You probably cannot recover from the mess.

What you were supposed to do was boot from the XP CD and do a 'repair'
install first. Nothing else should have been required to get things working
correctly. Because you ran the Norton stuff you pretty much screwed things
up.

"Harold" <klj2612(remove_this)@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I moved (installed) my HD from my "running well" older pc, with xp pro,
> programs, documents and so on, to a new one (new cpu, more memory, new
> video and sound card, etc). But when I turned on, I got error message OS
> LOADING ERROR, or something like that. Then, I tried Norton Recovery
> System doing a MBR fix. No more error message, but now a blinking cursor
> at top left. I created a Windows XP boot disk to start the computer, but
> got a missing hall.dll. Then I tried a windows repair reinstall, it seemed
> to go ok but when the instalation process restarts to coninue the
> instalation the pc hangs. I'm sure there's a way to recover my system
> before I do a less smart clean install. What to do now?
> Harold.
>

 

[Harold]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?)

Yeah. I do agree with you. After the mess I did I've tried everything with
no success. Anyway, I still can copy the HD (at least) and then a clean
intall.
Tks a lot.
Harold.

"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@MSN.com> wrote in message
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> You probably cannot recover from the mess.
>
> What you were supposed to do was boot from the XP CD and do a 'repair'
> install first. Nothing else should have been required to get things
> working correctly. Because you ran the Norton stuff you pretty much
> screwed things up.
>
> "Harold" <klj2612(remove_this)@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23p4Bl7mpFHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> I moved (installed) my HD from my "running well" older pc, with xp pro,
>> programs, documents and so on, to a new one (new cpu, more memory, new
>> video and sound card, etc). But when I turned on, I got error message OS
>> LOADING ERROR, or something like that. Then, I tried Norton Recovery
>> System doing a MBR fix. No more error message, but now a blinking cursor
>> at top left. I created a Windows XP boot disk to start the computer, but
>> got a missing hall.dll. Then I tried a windows repair reinstall, it
>> seemed to go ok but when the instalation process restarts to coninue the
>> instalation the pc hangs. I'm sure there's a way to recover my system
>> before I do a less smart clean install. What to do now?
>> Harold.
>>
>
>