Re: swap HD, won't boot

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Rich Barry

John, drives with Operating Systems on them are not interchangeable. It
has to do with the HP drive looking for all the HP devices in the IBM
computer and vice versa. Basically It's like swapping wives. A lot
of adjustments have to be made before they work if ever.
"John Smith" <jsmith@company.com> wrote in message
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>I removed the boot drives from an HP and an IBM computer. I then
> put the HD from the HP in the IBM computer. It won't boot. The IBM
> computer, having only one HD, gives an error message "no operating
> system found..." If I put the drives back to their original
> systems, they all work. What gives?
 
There could be several reasons for this error. The driver issue can be overcome
but it is not even getting that far. I would boot to a recovery console with
a windows xp cd(if you have it and it shold match the version you have.)
there are several command you can try. The first would be to rename the boot.ini
to something like boot.old. You may have to use the attrib -h -r commands
on the file.

Once you've renamed the file you can run the bootcfg /rebuild


you can also try the fixboot command.


Hello Rich,

> John, drives with Operating Systems on them are not
> interchangeable. It
> has to do with the HP drive looking for all the HP devices in the IBM
> computer and vice versa. Basically It's like swapping wives. A lot
> of adjustments have to be made before they work if ever.
> "John Smith" <jsmith@company.com> wrote in message
> news:OyC2a5oSIHA.4740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
>> I removed the boot drives from an HP and an IBM computer. I then put
>> the HD from the HP in the IBM computer. It won't boot. The IBM
>> computer, having only one HD, gives an error message "no operating
>> system found..." If I put the drives back to their original systems,
>> they all work. What gives?
>>
 
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