wikaman1 Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 *swapping vista for xpI currently have a 1TB sata drive with vista premium 32bit however I want to change to xp. I have the ide drive from my old pc that has xp on it so can I just take out the sata drive and put in the ide drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 Have you thought about the connectors? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikaman1 Posted April 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 yes all the connections were fine and I booted it up only to get to the xp loading bar screen then I got the BSOD and the computer just re-booted and got stuck in that loop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 Can you boot into Safe Mode, then update your drivers in there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikaman1 Posted April 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 I tried going into safe mode but it gets as far as mup.sys then crashes and reboots. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 20, 2009 Report Share Posted April 20, 2009 Ok now, what is the error code on the BSOD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pa1916 Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 No you can't just take your hard drive from your old computer and put it into your other computer.Did your other computer come with Vista?? if it did your MOBO might not have the drivers this is the problemthese days if you think your mobo has XP drivers on the recovery disk go ahead you will have todo A FULL FORMATEALL DATA WILL BE LOST and reinstall WXP or if you still have a problem use a W98 floppy fdisk and delete all None DOS partitions you could then create a dos partition make it active and reinstall WXP, you will have to convert later from FAT32 to NTFS.It's up to you.A point to remember WXP is now on extended support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pa1916 Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 Sorry for spelling error should have shown format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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