Crabby,
First of all, thanks for your reply as you have been the only one, and I've posting in quite some forums!
Second, you might have noticed I am not an expert! Maybe I have more than basic knowledge, but that's it! So I might need more detailed guidance so I dot end with a non working desktop.
I have made some attempts. As said, I tried booting the vista pc with the old IDE hard disk containing XP, by selecting it as the boot drive to no avail. It just kept in a loop showing first the HP blue setup page, then the black screen requesting which mode to start and going back. Then I tryed partitioning drive c and booting with my XP cd. It did the same as when booting from "old ide xp drive".
My WinXP is the original one, no SP. So then read in the web that I need the sata drivers.
Now your sugestion. I've never performed a repair install. Didn't know you could reinstall withouth loosing data nor installed programs. That would be great as this is one of the reasons I tryed to boot from the already installed XP system, because of the lot of programs allready installed.
So the option is to clean install XP? That wasn't the solution I expected, but in a real world, nothing is what you expect! Will it recognise the SATA Drive?Neither understand the part on editing the boot.ini. What would be edited? I just read that Vista renamed the boot.ini file.
Another thought: Is it possible to migratethe operating system from the old XP computer to the new Vista computer? Last weekend I used it and worked flawlessly. Or if there is some work to be done on XP it can be done there.
Well, can you provide me more detailed steps, or suggest a guide or something to help me better understand? I don't want to mess and be left with an useless PC!  |