Why did you remove the drive from the old computer and put it in the new
one?
You cannot boot from the old hard drive because the hardware on your new
computer is very different from the hardware on your old computer. It's
like moving the shell of a house onto a foundation that is entirely the
wrong shape; the shell collapses. When you install Windows the installer
analyzes the hardware in your computer and configures the hardware
abstraction layer. It is this HAL from the old machine that is wrong for
the new machine.
A proper use of the FAST wizard would be to use the 64-bit compatible
edition of FAST to copy the files and settings from your old machine to a
storage location (an external hard drive is very useful for this) and then
connect to the new machine and finish running the transfer.
If all you want to copy are data files then you could mount the old hard
drive as a data drive in the new machine or in an external enclosure.
--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"Utterly Confused" <> wrote in
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> Thanks, but my bigger issue is how to get my machine to boot my old hard
> drive (running XP Home) so I can run the FSTW from the XP64 CD-ROM and
> gather
> up my files and settings.
>
> Maybe I'm posting in the wrong topic for this, but I could really use some
> help. I changed the BIOS settings to boot the slave drive (the one with
> XP
> Home, my old drive), but it just crashes.
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>> When transferring files and settings from Windows XP to Windows XP x64
>> Edition, you need to use the latest FSTW. For more on this, please see my
>> blog...
>>
>> http://msmvps.com/xperts64/archive/2.../02/65120.aspx
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>>
>> Utterly Confused wrote:
>> > Okay, I might be in over my head here, but I just got a new PC with
>> > Windows XP64 on it. My old PC had Windows XP Home. I want to transfer
>> > my files and settings and it looked like the FaSTW was the way to go.
>> > Unfortunately, I only have one monitor, so I thought I would install
>> > both
>> > hard drives in my new case, boot the old drive, set up the files and
>> > settings to transfer, boot the new drive and retrieve the files and
>> > settings from the old drive. Well, I can't seem to boot the old drive.
>> > I get the BSoD. I can't even boot it in safe mode. This is all after
>> > I
>> > set the BIOS to boot the slave drive. I can't figure out what I'm
>> > doing
>> > wrong. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I just want my
>> > emails and data files, and maybe (if it's possible--Please say it's
>> > possible, please say it is...) my favorites and bookmarks from Firefox.
>>
>>
>>
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