[ngorever1989]

i took a hard drive out of a crappy old hp pavilon, and put it in my custom computer, the hard drive worked fine in the hp, but when i put it in my other computer, it detects it in bios, but then it'll pop up a black screen saying "error loading opertating system", dunno why, its a maxtor hard drive and as i said it worked fine in the other computer, i've got windows xp pro sp2 on it, and its been working fine for weeks since i put windows on it, any ideas

[cheesewheels99]

you need to reforamte first it has a whole hardware change and wont wrk unless you have 2 drives and 1 tht wrks with os set 2 primary that one as slave

[Cew27]

agreed i think you need to re-install an operating system on it so that it has the correct drivers

[ngorever1989]

i have a 250 gig western digital, i've only had it for half a year but the computer wont detect it anymore, is it dead or is it repairable, if so, i could use that as the slave, which i tried anyway, but i dont know how to get it workin, if its even possible

[cheesewheels99]

after you reformated?

[ngorever1989]

yea, i tried reinstalling windows but wen its done and i restart, its not on there, like i never installed it, same with red hat linux and mepis linux

[cheesewheels99]

so the harddrive from the old hp disconnect that and then try if it then works it may be your jumper setting s are wrong

[DreamHazard]

Originally Posted by ngorever1989 i took a hard drive out of a crappy old hp pavilon, and put it in my custom computer, the hard drive worked fine in the hp, but when i put it in my other computer, it detects it in bios, but then it'll pop up a black screen saying "error loading opertating system", dunno why, its a maxtor hard drive and as i said it worked fine in the other computer, i've got windows xp pro sp2 on it, and its been working fine for weeks since i put windows on it, any ideas

If you have a spare HDD, back up all the data you need using the HP, then reinstall windows on the custom and replace all of your data.

[ngorever1989]

yo cheesewheels, the jumpers are a bit confusing on hp HDD, for some reason, there are 2 sets of jumpers and no diagram, any ideas

[cheesewheels99]

call hp mabye

[ngorever1989]

i ges the multiple jumper thing is on all maxtors hdd, cus i got another maxtor off a buddy today and its got 2 jumpers too, although this one has a diagram, that ive got 3 hdd, my WD has one white jumper, and my 2 maxtory each have a blac jumper and a white jumper, wow, someones racist lol

[cheesewheels99]

lol so did u fix it

[ngorever1989]

i still have to get an operating system,i dont own any copies of windows, windows was already on my hdd

[cheesewheels99]

try linux

[ngorever1989]

i need windows, i've got a zune