I hope someone can help me in this situation, This is my last resort!
Situation:
My laptop does NOT have a CD-ROM or Floppy built into the machine. My laptop currently runs 30gig hd with windows 2000. I wanted to upgrade to a 40gig hd and win XP, so i bought the new harddrive and got an xp prof cd. On my OTHER laptop that does have cdrom in it, i poped the new harddrive into that one to install the OS. The install went flawless and I take the harddrive out and put it in my laptop without the cdrom and it wont boot. It goes through post and then goes to a black screen with the line cursur blinking (lookings like a blinking underscore character.) and it will not boot. Should it matter that the hd is in another laptop? I didnt think it should matter. HELP! Could this be a problem with boot files?
Situation:
My laptop does NOT have a CD-ROM or Floppy built into the machine. My laptop currently runs 30gig hd with windows 2000. I wanted to upgrade to a 40gig hd and win XP, so i bought the new harddrive and got an xp prof cd. On my OTHER laptop that does have cdrom in it, i poped the new harddrive into that one to install the OS. The install went flawless and I take the harddrive out and put it in my laptop without the cdrom and it wont boot. It goes through post and then goes to a black screen with the line cursur blinking (lookings like a blinking underscore character.) and it will not boot. Should it matter that the hd is in another laptop? I didnt think it should matter. HELP! Could this be a problem with boot files?