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How to carry a hard drive Windows XP from one machine to another?
Written by Administrator  |  Saturday, 19 September 2009 15:44
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Initially, we can not carry an XP system disk from one machine to another unless the two motherboards' chipsets are identical . Be clearer, unless the mark of both disk controllers for both cards are identical.
If you exchange the disc from your PC to another disk from another machine, Windows will not start, it will start and after a few seconds, the system will display a blue screen and restart.
It is a protection introduced by Microsoft as of version 5.1 of Windows NT, ie Windows XP. Before, it was feasible and without coercion.

But if you're really in need of transporting an XP system disk from one machine to another, here's a little trick that you will be very useful.

Solutions

If you're really designed to carry your hard drive containing your operating system Windows XP on another machine, several solutions available to you:

  1. Find a machine with the same brand of chipset than yours,
  2. Repair Windows to use the driver floppy disk from the motherboard target (next tutorial)
    Next tutorial: How to repair Windows simply but effectively?
  3. se universal driver for use on all brands of motherboards without distinction.
    We will choose the third option. With this method, Windows XP will ignore the brand of the controller and it will use a generic driver, standard. You can thus carry your hard drive containing your operating system on any other machine running Windows XP.
Practice

Are now entering the heart of the matter,

Our goal is to change the controller driver disk drives before removing the hard drive of your system CPU to do this, follow these steps:

  1. Enter the device manager.
    Several options available to you but we will give you two most commonly used:
    1. Click right mouse on the desktop and click on properties as shown
      .

      2. right-click

    2. Click the "Start" then "settings" then "Control Panel"


      Then double click the "System" icon

      3. system

  2. In the System Properties, click on "hardware" and then click Device Manager

    3. gestionnaire-peripherique

  3. Expand the device group "IDE ATA / ATAPI" by clicking the plus sign next to it
  4. Click right mouse on a hard drive controllers in this group
  5. Click on "Property"

gestionnaire-periph

 

Updated drivers for disk controllers

  1. We will now change the driver disk controller, arrived in this window if you click Yes, Windows will get you a better driver for your software on the Windows Update site, which is not our case here, our goal is to change the driver into a generic driver, standard, already present in all Windows, then select "No, not this time"
    After that, click next.

    2. assisant-maj1-full

  2. Windows offers to automatically pick the best driver for you, choose "Install from a list ..."



    3. assisant-maj2

  3. Ici encore, comme précédemment, optez pour "Ne pas rechercher. Je vais choisir le pilote à installer."

    4. assisant-maj3

  4. It's almost finished.
    Arrived here, do not forget to check "Show compatible hardware"
    Select "Controller IDE / ESDI Standard"
    We will use a standard driver compatible with all existing disk controllers. That way, Windows will think that the chipset of our motherboard is equivalent to any other motherboard, then we can transfer our hard drive containing our operating system Windows XP without a hitch.
    Click Next.

    5. assisant-maj4

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  5. It's over, you only have to click on "Finish".
    Repeat steps 5 through 10 for all devices in the group "IDE ATA / ATAPI" ..
    You can restart your computer once all transactions completed.

 

Now you are free to carry your system hard disk on any other machine.

 

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