0
I've ghosted a Winxp machine from one laptop with Ultra ATA drive, and would like to set it up on another laptop as a multiboot option on another hard driver with a SATA drive. I can install the partition fine but if i make it active and try to boot it it blue screens. The blue screen is so fast i cant even read it, other than to make out it's saying "something", im picking probably hard drive as it goes through POST fine.
So basically i would like to boot into my Win7 OS, and then somehow manipulate the XP partition to use updated drivers for the new hard drive/laptop so that i can then at least boot into the XP OS on the new machine and update all the other drivers in safe mode or whatever to get it to run.
I assume someone is going to tell me to just do a fresh install, but that kinda defeats the purpose of ghosting at this point. There is a significant amount of personalisation, development setup on the XP machine that i would like to just transfer as is. As it stands ive invested minmal time in getting it to run, just a ghost and recovery and then a blue screen boot or two, so its still well worth it to me, time wise to try this way. Thanks.
If you can get into Safe Mode (it wasn't clear from your question), you might be able to get around this by starting up in Safe Mode and then allowing the OS to install your drivers, then rebooting. – None – 2011-01-14T02:44:06.347
Hi there, no unfortunately i cannot get into safe mode. That is whre I am trying to get to for other drivers etc. :) It bluescreesn right after POST. – rism – 2011-01-15T22:05:58.820