I recently got a new dell system. I try to replace the new hard drive with an old one from an old dell system I have. The new system came with windows XP but the old system was running windows 2000. They are both 40GB hard drive. I did this because I would like all the information from the old system. When I try to START up the system I am getting the blue screen.
Why is this happening and what suggestions would you give me?The old hard drive was saved with diffrent hardware infomation and diffrent driver infomation. Unlike the old Operating system which will update it automatically the newer os 2000 + You have to reinstall everything. It is best just to keep the old hard drive on the old computer and keep XP on the new one.What you can try is to hook up the Win2K HDD as a slave and connect it to the middle CONNECTOR on IDE1...XP should now be ABLE to see the drive and you can copy/move your files at will.
If you want settings etc. from the Win2K drive you can use the Files and Settings Wizard within XP.Are the jumpers set correctly?

[glb]Flame[/glb]Pop the cmos battery and set the jumper to reset the cmos(motherboard specific: check with manufacturer). Stand by with driver cds for you new hardware and give it a try. I have had success with this method.Is the bios detecting the hdd?
Can you start in safe mode then remove the redundant devices from your Device MANAGER, re-boot and let w2k do it's thing?