Old Hard Drive

[Edday]

Hi all it's been a long time since my last post. I have been able to find all my answers here. This time I haven't found the one I've been looking for and I know it has been ask time and again. I am fixing an older computer up for someone that doen't have the money for a pc. My question is . I have a 40 gig WD harddrive I want to use that already has XP installed on it. How do I get it to work ? I think its the video adaptor . I tried to uninstall it before I put it in but of course it kept reinstalling it. Any ideas Thanks

[juppy]

If you have the XP cd, just boot to that and do a Repair install.

[glc]

http://www.pcmech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151522

[Edday]

I don't know what has happen . I turn the pc on to boot to the cd but it never came on it just gave me one long beep. I guess the old motherboard gave up. I unhooked everything except the hard drive and it still gave me the beep. I looked up the pc codes but didn't find one for the one long beep. Anything you guys know about this?
Thanks Again for the input

[glc]

One long beep is a ram problem.

[Edday]

Thanks for the reply. I haven't been here all week-end so will check out the ram tomorrow and will post back. Thanks

[Edday]

That was the problem . I replaced the memory and it booted up like it should.

Thanks for the help