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I want to put my old hard drive into a new machine but it
isn't booting correctly. Is there anyway to get the old
drive to recognize the new hardware?
 
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Here's some extra info if its needed:

OS -->win xp
Ram--> 128 MB
Drive-->13 gig

>-----Original Message-----
>I want to put my old hard drive into a new machine but
it
>isn't booting correctly. Is there anyway to get the old
>drive to recognize the new hardware?
>.
>
 
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"Rayquan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8d2301c48570$b33bab40$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I want to put my old hard drive into a new machine but it
> isn't booting correctly. Is there anyway to get the old
> drive to recognize the new hardware?

It's probably not the drive that fails to recognise the new
hardware but rather Windows XP that has a problem. Here
is a starting point:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q315341