Cloned hard drive for new mobo, won't boot

[expertwannabe]

not sure if I should post this here or on the OS board but here goes. I cloned my win xp hard drive so I could run xp on my 2nd pc. I cant get it to boot up.Im assuming it is because of win xp. I'm running a DFI mobo CM33-TL

 

[fastco]

If the hardware is different than the computer the drive was cloned from then it won't work. It needs to be formatted and installed with the hardware that the drive is currently in.

 

[expertwannabe]

well I do have a mobo with the same chipset as the pc the drive was cloned from. would that work?

 

[raybay]

Not unless the two systems are exactly identical. Windows XP will detect any changes in the system, other than memory, and shut you down each time it detects a difference... motherboard, cpu, drive, optical drive, video card or socket, memory type... it makes no never mind to those people at Microsoft.

 

[expertwannabe]

thanks for the help. this is what I was suspecting but wanted to be sure before I went any further.

 

[Tedster]

You need to reinstall windows from scratch when changing mobos or computers.