Maxtor Hard Drive Problem

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.

**Deleted090308** · 03-20-2008, 02:53 PM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

You can't start the "old" XP installation in a new computer.

The reason is that your old XP has the wrong set of drivers installed.

Put the new HDD back as a master drive with the old HDD as slave.

~~Computer_Doctor~~ · 03-21-2008, 06:05 PM

Most likely you will have to perform windows repair on the computer.

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.

03-20-2008, 02:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Maxtor Hard Drive Problem Hi, welcome to TSF. You can't start the "old" XP installation in a new computer. The reason is that your old XP has the wrong set of drivers installed. Put the new HDD back as a master drive with the old HDD as slave.

03-21-2008, 06:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
~~Computer_Doctor~~ Troubled Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 644 OS: Windows XP	Re: Maxtor Hard Drive Problem Most likely you will have to perform windows repair on the computer.