SylentSlayer Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 I am not sure what the issue may be I had an old hdd in a computer, went to put into my new computer and when I boot it up I get the windows xp loading screen, then takes me to a screen saying windows did not start successfully gives me option to start normal, in safe mode, or last known good configuration. All options just take restart the computer. I am unsure if it works in the old computer as I do not even have a vga cable anymore to hook it up to my new monitor. Wanted to check what old files I might still have on the computer. Any suggestions? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a1ien Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 What OS is on your new computer? Anyways, it sounds like you're booting off the old hard-drive. Since that isn't working, change settings in the BIOS to get your system booting off the hard drive in your new computer. T3X4S 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 well if you want to simply see what files are on there - you dont need to boot to it - in fact, that is probably not what you want to do. If you can set it up as a slave, or secondary drive, then boot to your normal new HDD - if it can, it will assign a drive letter to the old XP hdd. Or you can view the data through a Linux Live CD. At the very least install it in an external HDD via USB If the drive is bad, trying to boot to it lessens your chances of getting data from it. (you dont need a healthy, bootable OS to pull data from it.) If you want to try and boot to it - it will repeatedly give you errors because the image was made with different chipset - (basically, it wont boot) So, you need to do the Linux CD, or slave drive, external HDD thing if you want any chance of looking @ the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Overlord Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 an OS Hard drive for a different (old) computer? It will most likely not work due to drivers, and it was configured for use in a different machine. one way to view the files would be to hook it up as a secondary drive, via internal ide or sata connections, OR buy an appropriate housing (external hard drive caddy) for it, and hook it up via usb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 XP didn't play well with the hardware abstraction layer, hence the problem. Slave it, then use a live usb/dvd with the Linux distro of your choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Burtov Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 I am not sure what the issue may be I had an old hdd in a computer, went to put into my new computer and when I boot it up I get the windows xp loading screen, then takes me to a screen saying windows did not start successfully gives me option to start normal, in safe mode, or last known good configuration. All options just take restart the computer. I am unsure if it works in the old computer as I do not even have a vga cable anymore to hook it up to my new monitor. Wanted to check what old files I might still have on the computer. Any suggestions? Thanks! It's a well known problem - the IDE drivers from your old PC are incompatible with the new PC. When moving XP hard drives to a new machine you always had to change the IDE drivers to generic dual channel IDE controller before the move. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsVista/UserTips/Misc/Movingthesystemharddrivetoanothercomputer.html ? ? T3X4S 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylentSlayer Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 Not being to computer savvy maybe I'll run up to best buy and get vga cable. And yes my new system is windows 7 while the other is xp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrobwx71 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Not being to computer savvy maybe I'll run up to best buy and get vga cable. And yes my new system is windows 7 while the other is xp. There should be a jumper config on the top of the drive that tells you where to put the jumpers to slave it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SylentSlayer Posted June 6, 2015 Author Share Posted June 6, 2015 I ended up having an extra slot in MB to plug in an extra cable and got it up and running and got some old files off thanks everyone T3X4S and Tha Bloo Monkee 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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