TSGL: Can you HELP???

[Baracouder]

Thanks Russell and Don for the enlightenment, I had completely forgotten 
about the hardware being different from one pc to the other "Doh". I 
will reformat the drive and install from his pc (if possible).
Ye, googled "mup.sys" and found as you said 70,000 odd hits, poor old 
mup.sys gets it in the neck a lot. I will let you know if the problem is 
solved, thanks again for your time and help.

Russell W. Coover wrote:
> You cannot install XP on a hard disk on one computer, reinstall the drive in
> another, and expect it to boot. It won't ... unless the hardware in both
> computers is exactly the same. You used to be able to do that in Win 90, but
> by the time XP was developed, you could not. Actually, the problem has to do
> with drivers. If the HD doesn't recognize (through the drivers) the
> hardware, it won't boot. 
>
> I suspect this was an effort to keep folks from pirating XP. 
>
> Place the HD back in the computer it is intended to be in and reinstall XP
> there. Good luck. You shouldn't have any problem.
>
> Russ Coover 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Baracouder
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:10 PM
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> Subject: TSGL: Can you HELP???
>
> Hello all, a friend of mine had a problem after problem with his pc, if 
> it wasnt one thing it was another, ye get the picture.
> I said give me your winxp pro disk and I will reinstall a fresh 
> installation as he had nothing he wanted backed up. I took his hard 
> drive and hooked it up in my pc, all going well, installed xp and 
> started installing a few progs like ccleaner, erunt and regseeker. 
> Everything was fine until I hooked back up to his pc (it booted fine in 
> my pc). It would hang on startup and if I selected "Last known config" 
> it hung, if I selected "safe mode" it hung at "mup.sys" every time. I 
> have tried reseaeting the memory, nothing. I tried booting from the cd 
> in his own machine but when it came to "press F8 to continue" it wouldnt 
> accept but it would when I pressed "Esc to quit".
>
> Please help resolve my dilemma
>
> Many thanks..
>
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