Old HDD won't boot with new PC?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by ShinjiIkari, Sep 27, 2006.

  1. ShinjiIkari

    ShinjiIkari Private E-2

    Alright, this pretty much goes with the topic I created earlier, but it seems I got a new problem at hand.

    I set my the old HDD to Master, also made sure to check so it wouldn't be on Slave setting anymore. It boots up, then it goes to the screen where it asks if I want to run in Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Prompt, Start Windows Normally and so on.
    I've picked every option I, and it came out to one thing, which would be a black screen, then a few seconds later, it turns blue for maybe half a second, then reboots the PC.
    Now, I can go back and make this HDD a slave and still work fine, no problem, but when I try to make it a master, it won't do anything at all.

    Any help is highly appreciated.
    Thanks for your time once again.
     
  2. tunered

    tunered MajorGeek

    Im no expert on this but, it has something to do with the chipset on the different mother board,if all the new hardware is the same as the old m-board they work, sometimes you luck out and they will work, most times reformat if you want a os on it , storage is no problem. ed
     

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