disk cloning

[mdbusa]

I am trying to clone a laptop harddisk to an IDE harddisk-can clone but the IDE disk will not boot up with the XP that was on the laptop harddisk.

I figured it would at least boot up work but with driver issues.

Can anyone explain what might cause teh disk to not boot up. First time it blue screened-after that it just showed that curser in the upper left hand corner--nothing else

thanks

 

[QueBert]

Good luck getting XP to boot, I've cloned disks, and switches out MB's so many times it's not even funny. I think all but 1 of them I was able to do an upgrade install of XP and basically have the same XP back. But I've never been able to take a disc from one machine put it in another and get it to boot to XP so I could do driver installs and so forth.

Is it possible? I suppose anything is possible

 

[Puffnstuff]

Lets see, you took a laptop disk and cloned it then put it into a desktop and tried to boot? Not happening. You'll have to reinstall the os for the desktop. If you'd been running on a desktop and uninstalled all of the drivers and then moved it to another desktop then you might have booted up. I've done it before with xp when moving from nf2 to nf4 chipsets but nvidia designed it that way.