Moving Hard Drive From Old To New Computer

[dmcrme]

I can only get to safe modes screen and no choices on that window will work, cannot get to windows logon screen. Bios sees hdd. need help!

 

[Daveskater]

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With regards to your problem, are you using the old hard drive as your new main one or have you put it in as a secondary drive?

 

[nickc]

that was the first question I was going to ask and say u will have to format it if u want it to be the system drive with Windows, or at least do a repair on the drive to make it bootable.

 

[dmcrme]

Thanks...everybody I got it

Thanks for your help...all is good now.

 

[Daveskater]

glad to hear you got it sorted

just for future reference, how did you fix it?

 

[Tedster]

You cannot reuse windows on 1 system in another. Not only illegal but windows configures itself for each computer it is loaded on.