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Originally Posted by David F
you can not install an operating system on one machine then move the hard drive to another it does not work that way. For a start the boot setup could be wrong and if it issnt unless you have the same chipset or similar in both machines it will just crash or be problematic due to chipset driver conflicts
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well i have an image of windows XP Pro on an external hard drive which i have used to load windows on all three of my pc's and it has worked fine. and it is seen as a bootble drive via usb. but as you say if its not done right it will not work.
there is a tutorial.
here's the one i used. two years ago
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713
EDIT: Sorry for going of topic
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are you trying to load xp or vista ?
xp has only just got SATA drivers in SP3. just seen this on another forum. so not sure if its correct.