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 May 16 2007, 02:13 PM
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Where do I start to get my laptop system working? TIA, Frogarri |
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May 16 2007, 06:20 PM
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 Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,812 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
What was the reasoning for cloning the PC for the laptop? If you have a WinXP cd you can run setup on the laptop and choose to format the current partition.
-------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and Palm TX HandHeld. Sys 2 (FAH Machine) Athlon 650, 768 mb Pc133, Windows XP SP2 |
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May 16 2007, 06:32 PM
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I cloned the pc to the laptop so they would be the same. After that I could keep them syncronized with any changes, etc.. That way I could use either one to work on, i.e., at home or on the road.
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May 16 2007, 06:45 PM
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Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,812 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
Good reason
 ... Does the laptop give you an error code?
-------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and Palm TX HandHeld. Sys 2 (FAH Machine) Athlon 650, 768 mb Pc133, Windows XP SP2 |
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May 16 2007, 07:42 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 5-March 07 Member No.: 115,547 |
No error code but a screen that reads as follows:
"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or softwarechange might have caused this. Blah, blah, blah Then I get to choose from starting in the safe mode, safe mode with networking, safe mode with command prompt - Last known good configuration - start Windows normally. I've tried all of these options but none have worked. I get a bar at the bottom of the screen that looks like Windows starts to load but then it stops. Frogarri |
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May 16 2007, 08:29 PM
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you cant clone a hard drive boot drive from one machine and transplant it into a different machine without having done a driver strip first
this can be done by booting from the winxp cd and running a win xp "repair install" not reinstall goggle search for "michael stevens win xp repair install" or you can do like most IT staff does, after you make the clone, boot the original machine into the clone, then run win XP SYSprep on the drive to strip the operating system of all drivers this needs to be done to "adjust" the severely different HAL inventory (hardware abstract layer) when the transplanted boot drive is fired up, when the new laptop tries to boot and it checks its hardware inventory the laptops hardware doesnt match that of the drivers in the OS>>>> so HAL says NO go; and gives you the sorry charlie message but the real thing here is; you are trying to run two machines off one activation of windows; this wont work the steps I outlined above will make windows boot, but it will also trigger the need for XP activation; that call will not go so well. The MS rep will know the hardware inventory from the desktop was much diff than the new laptop hardware, therefore a new copy of win xp is needed sorry to rain on your parade; if this was a windows 2000 OS you would get away with it / but not XP This post has been edited by linderman: May 16 2007, 08:30 PM |
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May 17 2007, 04:10 PM
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Hardware Guru Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,812 Joined: 25-January 07 From: Tiffin, Ohio Member No.: 108,353 |
Good catch linderman, if the laptop has a windows XP key your in good shape. If not M$ is not going to be happy and you will be locked out of updates from the update site if you use both computers on the same key.
 Edit: Do you have 2 registration keys.. If not we can't offer anymore suggestions it will violate Microsoft Licensing agreements. This post has been edited by Sneakycyber: May 17 2007, 04:12 PM -------------------- ~Chad~ Biostar P4M900-M4, Celeron 2.7GHZ OCD 2.95, 2GB patriot DDR2 667 CL3, 60,20 GB IDE HDD, Windows XP Professional SP2, SAS, MBAM, MCAFEE STINGER, Zonealarm, Linksys Router, and Palm TX HandHeld. Sys 2 (FAH Machine) Athlon 650, 768 mb Pc133, Windows XP SP2 |
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