rdsport323
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Let me explain my situation... Recently, my parents purchased a dell xps computer over black friday, which came pre-loaded with Windows 8.. I hate windows 8.. but that's besides the point. This dell was supposed to replace an older inspiron that had Windows 7 installed on it...
So, what I wanted to do was basically take the hard drive out of the older inspiron with windows 7 and connect it to my newer dell xps that has windows 8 already installed.
So after plugging the hard drive in, windows 8 goes into a "Preparing Windows Repair" or something like that and gets stuck there for hours. I unplug the Win 7 hard drive and it boots normally. So I did some research and I found out it has somethign to do with the UEFI boot thing..
I'm not trying to dualboot, although that would be nice.. The main objective is to just be able to have both hard drives working in the computer so that I can access files on both drives without any hassle.
Sometimes if I reset the computer enough times, the computer actually lets me bypas the repair screen and it boots up like normal, but then it messes up when I reboot the computer.
Any help would be appreciated.. This is so annoying.
So, what I wanted to do was basically take the hard drive out of the older inspiron with windows 7 and connect it to my newer dell xps that has windows 8 already installed.
So after plugging the hard drive in, windows 8 goes into a "Preparing Windows Repair" or something like that and gets stuck there for hours. I unplug the Win 7 hard drive and it boots normally. So I did some research and I found out it has somethign to do with the UEFI boot thing..
I'm not trying to dualboot, although that would be nice.. The main objective is to just be able to have both hard drives working in the computer so that I can access files on both drives without any hassle.
Sometimes if I reset the computer enough times, the computer actually lets me bypas the repair screen and it boots up like normal, but then it messes up when I reboot the computer.
Any help would be appreciated.. This is so annoying.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8