need helping swapping a hard drive

itprojoe · 11-22-2008, 05:56 PM

Hello all,

I need some advice. I am in the process of fixing my fiance's grandma computer. The situation started like this, she could not turn on her PC. First I thought it was a bad power supply. I checked it out and it was not that because I used another power supply and it still would not turn on. I than proceeded to check the power on switch and it was working correctly. So I am thinking there may be a failure on the mother board? In any event I removed the hard drive from the "broken" pc and I am trying to install it in another PC. But when I installed it, I get the "mup.sys" error whenever I boot up the computer. First I get the screen asking me my options: Safe mode, safe mode with networking,etc. and Normal. However when I select any of the options I have, I eventually get to a DOS line and it freezes giving me the Mup.sys error. I do not have anything plugged into the computer except for a keyboard. Any advice?

**Doby** · 11-22-2008, 06:02 PM

You really can't (most times) boot another computer with a hardrive that had windows installed on it because of driver issues, you can however use it as a slave drive to retrieve data.

Is it a sata or ide drive?

itprojoe · 11-22-2008, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doby

You really can't (most times) boot another computer with a hardrive that had windows installed on it because of driver issues, you can however use it as a slave drive to retrieve data.

Is it a sata or ide drive?

ide

**sobeit** · 11-23-2008, 06:37 AM

first of all, if the operating system came with the original computer, you cannot transfer it to another computer. You will need to purchase a new copy.

You cannot move a drive from one computer to another and expect the os to work, different computers, different motherboard, different drivers.

Once your os is legal, you should be able to do repair install using a legal cd to get it to boot

11-22-2008, 05:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
itprojoe Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	need helping swapping a hard drive Hello all, I need some advice. I am in the process of fixing my fiance's grandma computer. The situation started like this, she could not turn on her PC. First I thought it was a bad power supply. I checked it out and it was not that because I used another power supply and it still would not turn on. I than proceeded to check the power on switch and it was working correctly. So I am thinking there may be a failure on the mother board? In any event I removed the hard drive from the "broken" pc and I am trying to install it in another PC. But when I installed it, I get the "mup.sys" error whenever I boot up the computer. First I get the screen asking me my options: Safe mode, safe mode with networking,etc. and Normal. However when I select any of the options I have, I eventually get to a DOS line and it freezes giving me the Mup.sys error. I do not have anything plugged into the computer except for a keyboard. Any advice?

11-22-2008, 06:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
Doby Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central PA (USA) Posts: 8,056 OS: XP sp2/ Vista My System	Re: need helping swapping a hard drive You really can't (most times) boot another computer with a hardrive that had windows installed on it because of driver issues, you can however use it as a slave drive to retrieve data. Is it a sata or ide drive? __________________ Would you like to help TSF fight cancer and other diseases??? JOIN TEAM TSF

11-23-2008, 06:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
sobeit TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NEAR Posts: 7,433 OS: windows/linux	Re: need helping swapping a hard drive first of all, if the operating system came with the original computer, you cannot transfer it to another computer. You will need to purchase a new copy. You cannot move a drive from one computer to another and expect the os to work, different computers, different motherboard, different drivers. Once your os is legal, you should be able to do repair install using a legal cd to get it to boot __________________ there's been global warming since the ice age