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Problems physically moving old hard drive to new laptop. Need Help
Hello to all!
It has been a long time since I needed the forum help, but right now I really need it.
This is the situation:
I had an old Compaq laptop with an intel chipset, in it I had an 500 gb HDD that was running Windows 7 ultimate and all of my favorite programs. That computer is not longer available and I need to move the HDD to another very similar Compaq laptop but with an AMD chipset.
First I tried just plugin in the the HDD in the "new" laptop, but I got a BSOD.
Kept looking for solutions and found here that I should try to start it in Safe Mode and remove drivers and specially modify the registry to change a setting on the intel chipset and to rename intelppm.sys to intelpp.old on the windows/system32/drivers directory. So I tried to do it, but it BSOD again.
What I did next was to use an external sata to usb adapter and connected the HDD to the "new" laptop and modified the registry and renamed the file from there. Connected the HDD and still BSOD.
Right now I don't know what more to try, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I also, know that a fresh install would be the best possible solution, but I would love to keep my installed programs, settings and customizations.
Any help and suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Max