Comments on: Move Windows XP Hard Drive or Change Motherboard Without Getting Blue Screen of Death

By: Nahton

Nahton — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:26:29 +0000

I was able to resolve this to the point of being able to boot to the second drive in the main slot by running the Lenovo system update utility while booted to the drive in the Ultrabay. I still have an Intel ICH8M-E LPC Interface Controller unknown device issue I am trying to resolve.

By: Nahton

Nahton — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:45:09 +0000

I have am having a slightly weirder problem related to my hard drive booting after a mother board replacement in my laptop.

I have a Lenovo T61 with an UltraBay hard drive adapter. I can boot to 2 separate configurations of the XP operating systems (one on each drive) for specific functions. I use the primary drive 90% of the time in the internal hard drive slot and the secondary drive in the Ultrabay. I switched them as part of the troubleshooting process to determine there was an issue with the system board and left the secondary drive in the laptop while it was serviced.

The problem now is that when I put my primary drive back into the internal hard drive slot I get the blue BSoD. Strangely enough it will boot while in the Ultrabay. The secondary drive boots up where ever it is placed.

What would be the best of the solutions discussed here to enable the primary drive to boot when placed in the internal hard drive slot? I do have both the Winternals ERD 2005 Boot Disc and UBCD4Win. Is a fixboot solution the better option?

I have access to the primary Hard Drive OS via the Ultrabay housed bootup. Can I just complete steps 1 -8 above and then actually complete the “Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller” driver update? I do have an unknown PCI Device listed under other devices.

Any assistance you can provide would be appreciated.

By: Dads35

Dads35 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:38:57 +0000

Good post simplest I’ve seen yet, but did you have to backup your install (disc, thumb, etc) prior to uninstalling everything???

Would hate to have to web-search for all of those updates again… thanks for the post

By: Kosh

Kosh — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:40:41 +0000

Not sure what all this UBCD4win business is about. I’ve successfully replaced a socket 775 mobo with a 1366 and kept installs of Win 2000, XP and Win 7 with no trouble at all.

Just boot into safe mode, goto Device Manager, uninstall everything (do NOT reboot if it asks too) then shutdown. Swap motherboards and boot into safe mode. Let the OS detect all devices, cancel any Found New Hardware wizards and reboot when it’s finished. Install chipset drivers, audio and graphics drivers. Reboot.

Job done.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:05:25 +0000

I get the message:

“Builder has stopped because there are 29 build errors.”

Most of these seem to be file not found errors. I tried two different XP Pro installation CDs, one OEM SP3 and one Retail SP2. Both have the same problem. I don’t know how to fix this.

By: progmanos

progmanos — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:21:44 +0000

I attempted to follow the steps in this blog post.

However, I am still unable to boot from the hard drive in the “new” pc.

I am getting a message that says:

“A disk read error occurred.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.”

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:25:15 +0000

Hi Raymond, I am a little confuse here.

On section (B)1. You said to “Download UBCD4Win and install.”
Did you mean to install UBCD4Win on the hard drive that just moved to the new PC?
So after completion of section A, the hard drive is able to boot up in the new PC?

Thanks in advance.