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Moving HD from one desktop to another

I have a hard drive that I want to move from one machine to another, but every time I boot the machine up on the second desktop I am sent to the startup repair screen. I know that there is something that can be done through command prompt to fix this problem, but I cannot find it online. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Frosty555

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Frosty555

Of course I was assuming you are intentionally trying to BOOT from the old hard disk... but it's possible that your second desktop PC already has a hard drive, and already has windows installed and runs fine, and you're just trying to plug the old disk in to transfer your files over to your new system.

If that's the case, probably what's happening is your second desktop computer is accidentally attempting to boot from the old desktop's hard drive.

The solution in this case is to go into the BIOS on the second computer, and change the boot order of your hard disks so that your computer boots from the correct disk. If you don't want to go into the BIOS, some computers you can hit a key (often F12) at POST which will open up a one-time boot menu where you can manually select the disk to boot from, and you can select the main disk for the PC.

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