Win2k/NTFS Hard Drive Security

[Baron Munchausen]

Ouch... The NT kernel uses all sorts of very hardware specific drivers. Maybe you should have gone into the device list and deliberately deleted all of the system devices before moving the drive. Do you still have the old MB and CPU? Can you re-install them and try to get it to boot that way? If the original MB and CPU are gone, there might not be any way to 'fix' this now but a reinstall.

[Thermodyne]

It may be a disk controller issue. I have seen the exact same error when trying to ghostcast an old image to newer hardware. If the controller is different, the drive/image won’t boot. The drivers are located in the system32 folder and in the system32\drivers folder. I’m not sure if pasting them in will work or if they have to actually be installed. A bootable OS like BartPC will give you access to the disk (most times) If the board is a lot newer, or has a different brand chipset, you’ll have big issues there too.

[Fyron]

The old CPU died, so going back is not possible. Guess I will just have to install Windows over itself.