New PC want Old HDD

[jjhill]

Hello,

I just purchased a new HP PC with a 40G HDD and WinXP Pro. I had an older PC that I upgraded the HDD to 120G and Full Version of XP Pro. I wanted to change the New PC's 40G with the 120G and make the 40G a secondary (Slave) When I put the 120G in and boot up it wants to go into safe mode. I was told that I would have to reinstall XP Pro from the CD and it would redo the drivers. Is this true and if so will I loose my data????

TIA
Jack

[EzyStvy]

Will it bootup in safe mode? If so, your REAL lucky.

Need to start with replacing the mobo drivers. Then video card, etc etc etc.

[jjhill]

Yes it goes to Safe Mode.
mobo = Motherboard?
TIA
Jack

[EzyStvy]

mobo = Motherboard? ->yes - aka chipset drivers

XP might have detected them correctly....

[kev7555]

XP should detect the new hardware and install the drivers for it. I had a similar problem with two drives running Win 98 SE. With the jumpers set incorrectly it was trying to boot from both drives.

Can't remember what the solution was though...

-Kev

[glc]

My advice is stick with the 40 gig drive for your primary because that's a proprietary HP XP load - and if you want more storage, slave the 120 into it. You can also clone the 40 onto the 120 and use the 120 as your primary drive, but you will lose everything that's on the 120.