Somebody at work gave me an Athlon XP 2000+ computer which is faster than my old p4 and it only has 256 mb RAM but it has 3 more slots; mine uses RAMBUS memory which is too expensive, so I was going to put my hard drive in this computer, which has no hard drive in it and when I tried I got a NON-SYSTEM disk error. It's a 40 gb IDE drive and it boots up fine in my Compaq so I don't know what the problem is. When the BIOS comes up it recognizes the drive, which has Windows XP installed.
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Jump to Postyou need to change the boot order so it checks the HDD before the floppy, cdrom etc...
btw a new pc means you will have to reinstall windows
Jump to Postif you have a full version of winxp you can do a repair install ,others here don't suggest it but i do it all the time on motherboard changes .
check here = http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
also you can boot it to your old computer and uninstall …
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