I was having problems with my HP Pavilion; every hard drive attached to it (internal or external) failed. So, I bought a new DELL XPS 730X. I was hoping to save some time reinstalling all my software and just put the old drive in the new computer...
I was having problems with my HP Pavilion; every hard drive attached to it (internal or external) failed. So, I bought a new DELL XPS 730X.
I was hoping to save some time reinstalling all my software and just put the old drive in the new computer and switch between them when I boot.
Since this has failed miserably, I'm wondering what I should have done differently.
The old drive works fine when I boot up with the native system. It will not boot up as the start disk. I get a blue screen flash, too fast to read what the error is, then the computer restarts. I can't boot up in safe mode, it stops at the same place in the driver list.
I tried reinstalling Vista as a repair and that didn't work.
Is there any hope or should I just bite the bullet and reinstall all my applications on the new drive?
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