New build: Cant load windows

Magnumwolf · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:36

Ive just built myself a new AMD rig but im having trouble with windows.

Ive taken the hard drive from my old comp and put it in the 1 but in the new build it wont load.

What happens:

Turn on computer
Bios screen appear
System information screen appear (HDD size, ram, etc)
Windows begins to load (Bar scrolls across)
Computer restarts

This happens every time.. I put the HDD back into the old computer and it still works fine.
When the HDD is in the new build i can use safe mode and it works just how safe mode should.

Ive spent hours playing around with the BIOS and other stuff in safe mode but im still unable to get anywhere.

The dam thing just wont boot no matter what i do

Anyone able to offer some advice?
Ive tried pretty much everything i can think of in the last 2 days and i really wont this rig working

derfderfley · 19 Apr 2006 at 18:58

Magnumwolf said:
Ive just built myself a new AMD rig but im having trouble with windows.

Ive taken the hard drive from my old comp and put it in the 1 but in the new build it wont load.

What happens:

Turn on computer
Bios screen appear
System information screen appear (HDD size, ram, etc)
Windows begins to load (Bar scrolls across)
Computer restarts

This happens every time.. I put the HDD back into the old computer and it still works fine.
When the HDD is in the new build i can use safe mode and it works just how safe mode should.

Ive spent hours playing around with the BIOS and other stuff in safe mode but im still unable to get anywhere.

The dam thing just wont boot no matter what i do

Anyone able to offer some advice?
Ive tried pretty much everything i can think of in the last 2 days and i really wont this rig working

Swapping HDD's with the OS on doesn't really work with XP, as you've found out. At a push you could put the HDD into the new rig, boot in safe mode then remove as many of the hardware drivers as possible then reboot. Only problem is you could end up with a HDD that won't boot in either rig.

Your best bet is to put the HDD in your old rig, back all your data up, then reinstall once you have the HDD hooked up to your new rig. And then restore your data.

Magnumwolf · 19 Apr 2006 at 19:04

i have a slight problem there.. the computer the HDD origninally came from didnt come with a restore disk so im unable to install windows.

It was supose to have some kind of built in restore program so a disk wasnt needed but i cant find the dam program anywhere

And how would i go about removing the drivers from the all hardware?

Control panel > system > hardware > device manager ?

BigBoy · 19 Apr 2006 at 19:13

Tranfer of the operating system the way you are is ilegal and to be honist i doubt you will get any help here.

My advice Go and buy a original retail version of WinXP and install that.

Magnumwolf · 19 Apr 2006 at 19:18

BigBoy said:
Tranfer of the operating system the way you are is ilegal and to be honist i doubt you will get any help here.

My advice Go and buy a original retail version of WinXP and install that.

What makes it ilegal? Im just upgrading the hardware..

BigBoy · 19 Apr 2006 at 19:34

There are two types of Windows Licence

1:- Retail where you get a bot a book and the CD with a Retail cd-key.
This licence is allowed to be installed on 3 different computers one at a time. So if you bought a copy and put it on your old computer then took the Hd out and put it in your new computer and reinstalled it that would be fine. but you cannot have it installed on both computers at the same time.

2:- OEM usualy preinstalled on you computer when you buy it and a sticker stuck to the computer with the CD-key on it. And is there for tied to that computer and to the hardware within it.

Brian Stuart · 19 Apr 2006 at 22:41

BigBoy said:
There are two types of Windows Licence

1:- Retail where you get a bot a book and the CD with a Retail cd-key.
This licence is allowed to be installed on 3 different computers one at a time. So if you bought a copy and put it on your old computer then took the Hd out and put it in your new computer and reinstalled it that would be fine. but you cannot have it installed on both computers at the same time.

I always thought that a retail copy of XP could be used on as many different builds as you like as long as it was only installed on one PC at a time
Brian

BigBoy · 19 Apr 2006 at 22:59

Nope Max of 3 computers one at a time

its a sad fact but microsoft are there to screw every penny from you

benjo · 19 Apr 2006 at 23:04

BigBoy said:
Nope Max of 3 computers one at a time its a sad fact but microsoft are there to screw every penny from you

Well i've just had a slight problem of my hard drive dying. I've got the first copy of windows you stated.. so if i were to install it on a new hard drive but within the same pc, does that count as a new computer install?

Fillado · 19 Apr 2006 at 23:07

I've had my OEM disc installed on it's "original" computer and the current one i'm on, which I guess you could call an upgrade (not at the same time), with countless reinstalls, and hardware on my newer computer having changed quite a bit.

Haven't had any activation problems over the internet at all

Taking an installation of Windows direct from one computer to another will screw up things a lot, and you probably can't/shouldn't do it.

Just go and buy an OEM copy of Windows XP (£58) with a cheap HSF to make it nice and legal

benjo: Microsoft recently defined a computer as the motherboard in their licence agreement, so legally/technically you would be fine.

benjo · 19 Apr 2006 at 23:11

Fillado said:
benjo: Microsoft recently defined a computer as the motherboard in their licence agreement, so legally/technically you would be fine.

Thats what i wanted to hear! Thanks

Yewen · 20 Apr 2006 at 03:38

Also if you phone them up if your motherboard failed, they will still activate if all the other components are the same, owing to the fault.

You are then free to change as before.