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Old 11-09-2003, 02:16 PM   #8 (permalink)
Lasereth
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Originally posted by Dilbert1234567
you cant just drop a hard drive into a new computer with winxp, it will reject all of the hardware changes and will spit back at you. you need to re-enstall the OS
Yep. I've been able to get that to work ONCE in 6 years, and only with a SCSI hard drive. It's not supposed to work in ANY OS at all, but it does sometimes. Even when it does work, it's better to reinstall. You're gonna have to back up your data and reinstall Windows XP. Good luck!

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