Hi all: Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on the following: I have an Acer 2410 laptop with a 60GB HD. Due to additional space requirements, I have invested in a 160GB SATA HD and a HD caddy. Now I have installed Windows Server 2000 on the HD and slotted it into its new home, the HD caddy. My intention was the to plug it into laptop and hot-swap between the two O/S! Now all was going well, BIOS reconfig to boot from USB HD (Win Ser 2000), however got to the start up menu and crashed! Fatal blue screen displayed, with the error message unable to open/access HD! Check for virus or remove newly installed hardware, etc.... I reinserted the HD into my desktop and quickly tested it, thinking that it may have incured an error during set-up! Well it booted fine and loaded Windows Server no probs! I the reinserted it into its HD caddy and attempted a reboot via laptop. The same instance of the blue screen error happend again!!!! Does anyone have any adivce on how to solve/rectify this? Any help much appreciated. Oliver
the drivers your desktop and laptop are different, so that the hd cannot boot the necessary drivers in which it is accustomed that's why it crashes. if you had two same computers, with the same drivers and components, it would boot. it may even work as long as it has the same drivers.
So the gist of the story is that you need to reinstall windows through your laptop, if you want to boot up your laptop from that drive.
