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OK, so I got a new 'barebones' system and am trying to take the HD from my old system and put it in the new.  Here are the specs

Old system

P3 933mhz on Aopen board
256mb RAM
128MB Video PCI
40G Seagate drive
Windows 2000 SP4

New system

P4 3ghz
Elitegroup RC410l/800-M board
1024mb RAM

I thought I'd be able to just stick in the HD and install the drivers in the new system, but I am getting the INACCESSIBLE BOOT DRIVE 0x000000007B error after initial windows STARTUP. I tried a spare drive that I had and got the same. They are both marked for master/single drive and were on IDE1. They both showed up in the BIOS.

Any thoughts!?  Thanks!


I thought i'd be able to just stick in theOH.. and i put the the HD back in the old system, and it works.what is the os of the new systemIt's the same HD for both systems, so Win2000 SP4So you did not reload Windows on the new hardware after the transplant?Hey GX1_Man!   I remember you helped me w/ some drive issues before :

No, I just put the HD from the old system into the new one. Do I need to reinstall windows?Yes, a reinstall on the correct hardware it is expected to function on is always the BEST idea. You should backup any data files first.Doesn't that just figure, especially since my WIN2K CD is scratched and unreadable...

Can I get away with using the XP update or do i have to do a clean install?If you are using an XP upgrade CD you can USE just that. Sometimes you can copy a bad CD and get a usable copy, if cleaning alone doesn't work.