Xp Instal

[steq184]

Sorry for this being a long thread but guess I'd better tell you exactly what has been done to remedy this problem of mine.

First off I have a Compaq SFF D500 pc, I wanted to upgrade to a large hard drive so chose to use the 400gb drive I have been using as an external backup drive so I know it works fine.
Anyway I firstly formatted this drive when it was an external drive, popped it in the pc and put in the genuine xp pro disk, entered bios and made sure the cd rom was first in the boot order but never booted no matter what I did. Tried different cd rom but still same problem.
I have no floppy drive or floppy dicks so cannot do start up disk.
Next off I put the 400gb in another pc and the xp disk booted up straight away, I loaded xp no problem.
When finished loading I took the 400gb hard drive out of the spare pc and put it in the Compaq SFF.
When I try to boot up I now get the error message on the dreaded blue screen: A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. Check for viruses, remove any newly installed hard drives or controllers, check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Technical info: STOP: 0x0000007B then followed by 4 parameters.
I have since put the 400gb back as an external drive and have run CHKDSK from my laptop and received no errors.
No sure how to get round this.

[RecT]

It sounds like a motherboard problem with the original PC - if the HDD works in every other computer.