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white_ivery   02-28-2009 at 06:54:04 PM

Hello:

I have bought a used Toshiba Portege 3140CT laptop. The 20 GB hard disk had only Dos on it. I had remove the hard disk from the laptop. Then, I attached it to my desktop computer. I had loaded Windows XP Pro on the hard disk. Booting from the laptop hard disk, the operating system works great on the desktop computer. When I place the laptop hard disk back in to the Toshiba Portege 3140CT laptop, I am ask to insert OS disk in drive A. The BIOS on the laptop is set to boot from CD-ROM->Hard Disk->Floop Drive, in that order. Please what did I do wrong?

Sincerely,


White_Ivery

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   02-28-2009 at 08:06:15 PM

You installed windows on a computer that wasn't going to use it. You can't just change hard disks from computer to computer and expect windows to still work - when it installs, it installs sets of drivers and a new registry specifically built for that machine. You need to install windows on the notebook on the notebook, if that makes sense.

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cheaptofix   03-01-2009 at 03:26:04 AM

in short, don't use the pc use the laptop itself to install xp.

------------------------------ I joined fixya, good bye tom but you can come to my own forum www.laptopquestions.co.uk

frozenlead is a good member here for laptop questions
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