L. Satterfield
December 27th 03, 11:40 AM
You can't take a HD from one puter to another one, each
puter has different motherboards, BIOS, etc...
The only way to make a HD work in another puter is to
reformat it (in the puter it will be used in) and
reinstall all software.
As far as haveing 2 HDs in one puter make sure one is set
as master and the other as slave.
L. Satterfield
>-----Original Message-----
>ok heres the lowdown. i got a new comp.I took the hd and
all that out
>of my old comp and put in new one.took the one from the
new one and
>formated it because it didnt seem to want to work in the
other comp. i
>put the HD in my new comp as slave to my main HD.
installed winxp on
>second hd, and took it out to put it in the other one. i
got cant find
>"ntldr" read and read and made a boot disk with
boot.ini, and the
>ntldr files. "DISK I/O error"... put HD BACK in my comp
copied all
>those files now when i try to boot off hd i get "hal.dll
missing or
>corrupted" i put it back in my comp and copied that file
into
>windows/system32 folder. still same message. the HD off
this comp will
>work in the other comp so its not the comp. also tried
to boot off
>windows xp as suggested but it doesnt seem to even try
to do that even
>after i set first boot device to cdrom. just skips and
says hal.dll is
>missing or corrupted. I cant get this darn comp to boot
with anything
>and its driving me nuts.summary..floppy <tried 3> "Disk
i/o error or
>"disk read error" if i boot from HD it gives me "missing
or corrupted
>file hal.dll" or cannot find ntldr press
cntrl+alt+delete to reboot.
>PLEASE help!!
>
>.
>
puter has different motherboards, BIOS, etc...
The only way to make a HD work in another puter is to
reformat it (in the puter it will be used in) and
reinstall all software.
As far as haveing 2 HDs in one puter make sure one is set
as master and the other as slave.
L. Satterfield
>-----Original Message-----
>ok heres the lowdown. i got a new comp.I took the hd and
all that out
>of my old comp and put in new one.took the one from the
new one and
>formated it because it didnt seem to want to work in the
other comp. i
>put the HD in my new comp as slave to my main HD.
installed winxp on
>second hd, and took it out to put it in the other one. i
got cant find
>"ntldr" read and read and made a boot disk with
boot.ini, and the
>ntldr files. "DISK I/O error"... put HD BACK in my comp
copied all
>those files now when i try to boot off hd i get "hal.dll
missing or
>corrupted" i put it back in my comp and copied that file
into
>windows/system32 folder. still same message. the HD off
this comp will
>work in the other comp so its not the comp. also tried
to boot off
>windows xp as suggested but it doesnt seem to even try
to do that even
>after i set first boot device to cdrom. just skips and
says hal.dll is
>missing or corrupted. I cant get this darn comp to boot
with anything
>and its driving me nuts.summary..floppy <tried 3> "Disk
i/o error or
>"disk read error" if i boot from HD it gives me "missing
or corrupted
>file hal.dll" or cannot find ntldr press
cntrl+alt+delete to reboot.
>PLEASE help!!
>
>.
>