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    Ghosting question

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Coldwin, Apr 9, 2005.

  1. Coldwin

    Coldwin Newbie

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    I want to ghost my desktop to my laptop.

    I attached the laptop HDD to my desktop with an IDE adapter and ghosted it.

    Worked perfectly, the laptop hardrive boots an exact copy of the desktop, in the desktop

    When I put it back in the laptop it wont load windows.

    Any ideas?
     
    Coldwin, Apr 9, 2005
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    Coldwin Newbie

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    I can boot it in any of the other desktops

    Know of a way around it so I can install the right drivers?
     
    Coldwin, Apr 9, 2005
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    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    I suspect it is motherboard driver issues.
    can you try to repair the installation? maybe the windows installer will fix the problems.

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    It wont work because of driver issues. The same Windows installation wont boot on 2 different machines. they should be more or less identical, at least the motherboard!

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  5. Coldwin

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    I can get into the repair console, i tried disabling the agp440.sys service but that didnt help, what do you recommend in the repair console?
     
    Coldwin, Apr 9, 2005
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