Computer won’t load a drive from another PC?
September 9th, 2009 Posted by: admin
Hey, I’ve got two PCs here, one older HP computer which I’m on right now, and another PC thats newer and custom built, and the one I usually use. Well the drive on my nice PC died, so now my good PC is just sitting there and I’m stuck using this computer. So I wanted to swap the HD from this crap computer and put it into my nice computer so I could play games.. I put this drive from the HP computer(P4), into my better computer(AMD), and after the post when its about to start loading Windows, the computer just reboots.. Then goes through post and reboots, and just keeps doing this cycle.. Bios sees the drive just fine, not sure why it wont load windows on that PC. What could be causing this? Is it because this drive doesn’t have all the drivers on it for the other computer?
This working drive was installed on a computer with a Pentium 4 processor, and I’m trying to put it into a AMD computer with an abit AN8 SLI mother board. Could the processor difference cause this?
The only problem I can think of is the difference in processors and a driver issue.
Safe mode does the same thing unfortunately, reboots.
By: Danny T
Tags: Abit An8, Loading Windows, Mother Board
September 12th, 2009 at 14:25
you will have to do a clean install for it to work
September 12th, 2009 at 15:41
the processor isn’t the problem here, it’s a driver issue. can you boot in safe mode at least? I’d recomend doing a repair or re-install if you got a windows bootable CD , that should not require a format so you can keep your applications and games
September 12th, 2009 at 19:00
Yeah, you’ve pretty much nailed the problem there. Windows doesn’t handle that kind of hardware change well at all. Your best bet is to reinstall Windows on the drive while it’s connected to the hardware you intend to use it with. The Windows installer will autodetect the hardware and install and configure appropriate drivers.
It’s possible that you can get it to work by booting to safe mode and repairing the installation, but I’ve had mixed results in the past with this method - the core issue is that Windows is a pile of crap. You’ll probably save yourself hassles and heartbreak by just doing a clean install.
EDIT: Emily’s answer below is complete rubbish. I have three AMD computers and one Intel in my house, all of which at one time or another have been running XP SP3.
September 15th, 2009 at 05:20
I think is that your driver from the HP computer cannot be reconized on your AMD computor. I may be wrong, but I think you should go into the BIOS setting just in case or you can get some help on the Internet to research about this problem you have.
September 16th, 2009 at 21:26
Are you using XP? And if you are, do you have service pack 3 installed? If you do it’s a HP issue. It messes up with AMD processors (service pack 3 I mean) I had the exact same issue. You need to boot your computer into safe mode. Go to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers. Rename intelppm.sys to XXXintelppm.syx and then restart.
September 18th, 2009 at 20:59
The very next step after the BIOS see the hard drive is the software driver for the hard drive, you have name that problem yourself in your analysis. You will need to get the driver of the hard drive for you nice computer for the hard drive.