Installing Xp on Hard-drive and Putting on Diff Laptop

So I have two computers right now, and HP laptop with a cd drive, and a Toshiba portege m200 without a cd drive. My parents got a virus on it, and I was forced to renstall.

I tried putting the hard drive from the toshiba laptop into the HP and installign it there. The install was very successful but when I switch the hard drive into the toshiba, it boots fine, but it gets stuck at the windows xp loading screen, and the bar doesnt move. When I shut it off abnormally and it gives me that "Start in safe made" and all those other options, safemode gets stuck on mup.sys and "Use last known settings" freezes the computer right at that screen.

Anyone hae ideas?

 

Drivers?

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As in the drivers XP comes with? I need some elaboration please

 

It will never work that way, Windows installs itself for specific hardware---when you move the drive you kill the installation.

AN external optical drive is the easiest choice, but there are alternatives ---does the portege have a floppy drive?

 

Stewie has a nice how to

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=309695&#post4030791

 

Did you install any drivers after installing Windows, before putting the drive back in your parents' system?

 

It never works because you don't know how to.

There are actually 2 ways of installing xp on different computer.
1) http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...5&#post4030791
2) Install half of the windows xp (until it ask you to reboot). Turn off instead. Switch the hdd to a different computer, then continue install. The result will be a fully functional PC with XP on a different computer.


There are also ways of of installing XP on a comptuer without optical drive.
1) You can put it on a USB flash drive and install from there (make it bootable first)
2) Use a Dos cd emulator to mount the cd image in dos through a flashdrive , then continue install

 

sigh....yes, I do know how, thanks

In fact, if you look at my link, it links to the same thing you tried to link to (interestingly, I apparently know how to make a link, as mine works--yours does not).

To correct another thing, the portege does not support usb booting, so your choice number one in the second section does not help.

Now, IF you would actually read what I said rather than walk in and try to prove smart you are, you would realize I said that what HE DID WILL NEVER work, because he installed it completely on the other system which resulted in a hardware abstraction layer intended for the other computer, and that HAL was not going to work on this machine.

Furthermore, it is rare that a repair or any driver update will repair a system set up the way HE SET IT UP.

Indeed, I can actually come up with at least two other ways he could install xp on his portege, but really what is the point other than trying to prove how smart I am?

I can actually tell you're a pretty smart guy, so I am not trying to imply you are a moron. In the future, maybe you should read what others post and not presume you know more than everyone else, eh?

We are all trying to help and that kind of attitude really doesn't become you and doesn't help anyone.

 

Sorry.. I was tired and didn't read the post carefully. Opps.

 

And re-reading my post, I came off pretty arrogant, too. So I apologize for that.

 

So I tried those steps but when I put my hard drive into the computer without a cd drive, it boots up fine, but after the toshiba splash it just hangs tehre, and the HD Activity light is on for 2 seconds and then stays off, along with a blank black screen


Edit: Its like the install partition isnt set to ACTIVE but the XP thats working is, and it tries to boot into it.

 

Did you delete the partitions on it from before? And then create a new partition?

 

Which partitions? The xp that u use the Run.. winnt32.exe?

 

Wait a second...I don't think you are doing this right....

Let's back up...this process assumes you are putting the Protoge drive into a functioning computer as a SLAVE...you still have your working computer with its own drive.

It sounds like you are putting the protoge drive into the other computer....and that is the only drive

 

I have two drives. One from the portege, and one from the hp. The hp one has windows 7 installed, but i take that hard drive out, and use the portege one as the HP has a cd drive and the toshiba deosnt.

I got the installation to boot properly on the portege putting the hdd back but it keeps booting into the blue screen setup

 

Forgot to mention, BOTH OF THESE ARE LAPTOPS.

I tried installing, and then when it says to restart, i swap hard drives but that doesnt work. just gives me a blank black screen