OLD HD IN NEW SYSTEM
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i just built a PC for my brother. the specs are 12 gigs of ram, intel i7, asus sabertooth mobo, and 2 TB drives. The question i have is i want to put the drive with windows already installed into the new system, when i hooked everything up windows tried to boot then blue screened. I tried the system self restore but that did not work. Is there a way to reconfigure the drive for the new hardware without a format?
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Let me take a wild guess.
BSOD with "Unmountable_Boot_Volume" or something to that effect?
You cannot take a windows installation from one computer to another.
there is some small cases where i have seen it work with driver roll backs (while the HDD is in the old PC)
I'm guessing the OLD pc is WinXP and 32bit at that. I would not bother even if u do get it working ull only see 3 of ur 12gb of RAM
bite the bullet and reinstall.
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