System Will Not Startup

[cprovost]

I removed the HD from my friends old computer to put into my faster system for him to use and it gets to a point where it says Verifying DMI Pool Data and just sits there. The HD already has Windows 2000 Professional on it and I can't just format it because of important files on it. I tried to do a repair on the HD with the Windows 2000 CD and it copies the files and everything. but when it restarts it does the same **** thing. I have verified all the cable connections and tried different cables and they are all fine. The cmos detects the HD fine and gets the size and everything correct, it just doesn't want to boot up.

[ironik311]

Why are you trying to boot off it? Use your HDD as the primary boot and put his in as either a primary slave or secondary master. That way you boot off yours and can still read the data from his.

I see that he has win2000 prof. so you'll have to make sure that if he has his drive formatted as NTFS that you boot from an OS that supports it (win2000, winXP)

[userserver]

Your friend is not likely to be able to use your system with his drive because of the nature of ACPI. When you make hardware changes as extensive as moving a drive to another system, you generally have to reinstall Win 2K