Toshiba Portege - using PC installed Win XP - won't get pa..

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Are you saying that XP is already installed and then you are transferring
the drive, or that you are putting the basic cabs onto the hdd and then
trying to setup XP from the drive?
"NCK" <not_given@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Bought a cheap Toshiba portage - because the HD was dead. I've replaced
the
> HD and installed standard WinXP on the HDD from my PC (because I don't
have
> an external CD for the toshiba yet). I can boot fine from the disc on my
PC,
> but on the Toshiba it gets to the point in the boot sequence when the line
> is filled in completely in white and then hangs the machine.
>
> Am I suffering from lack of the correct drivers? surely the laptop would
> boot standard XP? (I don't have the XP tablet edition either - if there is
> such a thing). I just have one disc with some tablet files on it.
>
> Cheers
>
> N.
>
>