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I thought this would be a very basic install but it's turning out to be a little more involved than I imagined. Here are the specs of install. I used Acronis True Image to make a bootable rescue disk, and then I also backed up my whole laptop's hard drive using Acronis as well. Here is where I ran into problems.

My laptop is a 3 yr. old Fujitsu N-5010, 3.0 Ghz, Pentium 4, running an IDE ATA hard drive. I am installing onto a newer desktop, a Micro Velocity E2035, 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo, running a SCSI hard drive. From what I can gather after reading other computer/IT forums, therein lies the problem, incompatibility of hard drive types that is. MS support even recommended switching components on the newer computer to match those of the older one, but I am not in a position to do that.

The new computer powers up fine and proceeds with a Micro Velocity welcome screen - after that, however, is where I get the following error message:

Stop 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE


Does anyone have experience with this, or perhaps could someone shed some light on what my options are at this point? Any advice you could give would be much appreciated. I'm not dead set on installing XP from my laptop onto this newer computer (which has no OS installed on it BTW) but I would be open to other suggestions. Thank you all in advance for your help.

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Short diagnosis: moving a live XP installation from one machine to another usually fails because the installed XP is tied to the original machine's storage driver, HAL and chipset. The symptom in this thread points to the OS not being able to talk to the new machine's disk controller rather than a bad image. That is why a simple restore from the laptop image to the desktop stalls early on boot.

Practical options (ordered from simplest/most reliable to most technical): do a clean XP install on the new box and restore user files from the Acronis backup; use a hardware-adaptation feature such as Acronis Universal Restore or a similar tool to inject the new machine's storage drivers into the image before first boot; prepare the source system with Microsoft Sysprep so Windows generalizes hardware and then capture/restore the image; or perform a Windows repair install while supplying the correct SCSI/SATA driver (press F6 during XP setup or slipstream the driver with nLite if no floppy is available). Another quick test before advanced steps: set the motherboard storage mode to a compatibility/IDE mode in BIOS if that option exists so the stock XP driver can see the drive.

Notes and cautions: back up everything before experimenting, keep a retail XP CD or valid license ready (OEM licenses may not be transferable), and collect the exact XP-era driver for the desktop's controller. was correct that a repair install can help, but only if the proper storage driver is available; rightly flagged that a straight clone leaves mismatched drivers in place.

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Xp is meant to do that.

XP is designed so that if its hardware drasticalyl changes, it wont boot, in order to stop piracy.

You may be able to get it to boot by doing a "repair reinstall" but you will need an xp cd and it will cock things up a bit.

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I thought this would be a very basic install but it's turning out to be a little more involved than I imagined. Here are the specs of install. I used Acronis True Image to make a bootable rescue disk, and then I also backed up my whole laptop's hard drive using Acronis as well. Here is where I ran into problems.

My laptop is a 3 yr. old Fujitsu N-5010, 3.0 Ghz, Pentium 4, running an IDE ATA hard drive. I am installing onto a newer desktop, a Micro Velocity E2035, 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo, running a SCSI hard drive. From what I can gather after reading other computer/IT forums, therein lies the problem, incompatibility of hard drive types that is. MS support even recommended switching components on the newer computer to match those of the older one, but I am not in a position to do that.

The new computer powers up fine and proceeds with a Micro Velocity welcome screen - after that, however, is where I get the following error message:

Stop 0x0000007B INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE


Does anyone have experience with this, or perhaps could someone shed some light on what my options are at this point? Any advice you could give would be much appreciated. I'm not dead set on installing XP from my laptop onto this newer computer (which has no OS installed on it BTW) but I would be open to other suggestions. Thank you all in advance for your help.

I'm confused. You say that it has no OS installed on it? Then what are you trying to boot from? If it is a cloned image from your laptop you would have many problems. You'd have problems with all of the different components not having the right drivers installed.

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