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rip921 · 03-20-2008, 09:32 AM

My old computer recently died on me ( I sent it to a computer repair place and they said that the motherboard was the problem . Anyways, I bought a DELL computer Intel Pentium 4 with Windows XP service pack 2. I wanted to transfer the hard drive from the old computer to the new one. My old hard drive is a 100 GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 model 6B100P0 PATA133 HDD. so I removed the IDE cable and the power cable from the hard drive that came with the dell and plugged in my Maxtor. When I started the computer and went into BIOS , it recognized my old hard drive but I would continually get the( Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause ) sort of error and it just keeps restarting. Did I need to do something with regards to the BIOS and my old hard drive. When I received the error , I tried to remove the IDE and power cables from the DVD drive and floppy but I still got the error. Any help would be much appreciated.

03-20-2008, 09:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
rip921 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1 OS: WIN XP SP2	Maxtor Hard Drive Problem My old computer recently died on me ( I sent it to a computer repair place and they said that the motherboard was the problem . Anyways, I bought a DELL computer Intel Pentium 4 with Windows XP service pack 2. I wanted to transfer the hard drive from the old computer to the new one. My old hard drive is a 100 GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 model 6B100P0 PATA133 HDD. so I removed the IDE cable and the power cable from the hard drive that came with the dell and plugged in my Maxtor. When I started the computer and went into BIOS , it recognized my old hard drive but I would continually get the( Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause ) sort of error and it just keeps restarting. Did I need to do something with regards to the BIOS and my old hard drive. When I received the error , I tried to remove the IDE and power cables from the DVD drive and floppy but I still got the error. Any help would be much appreciated.