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Here is what I got, my dad gave me his laptop because he probably never took care of it (business, seen a ton of USB's and attached files from emails). It had quite a bit of trojans, I did managed to get rid of them through one of my builds. I insert the HD back into the laptop and suddenly it won't start; instant blue screen, could see the error message. I got tired and reformat the drive and install a new XP slate. everything worked on the desktop like it should, then I went to start the drive through the laptop and I got the same problem. My mom has the same model, I swapped drives and both computers start up. On my dad's though, I get a message that says media connection failure? (I hope one of you know what I mean) then it works fine. I couldn't really do much on the bios, I switched boot priories to see what happens, with same result. I am a bit stumped.

The laptop is a lenovo 3000 N200.

Your dad's laptop's HDD has something wrong with it. I would reformat it at least once (twice to be sure), and then reinstall Windows.

Can you get it to boot into safe mode with the original drive that you re installed XP on?

When you say it gives you a blue screen at what time during the start up does it happen?

My first guess would be some type of driver issue, but I don't know why. Did the laptop come with a driver disk.

Your post isn't clear to me where you formatted your hard drive and installed windows. If you did it in any other machine other than the laptop, this is why it won't boot and run properly.

Nasty

^this.
Trick works with Linux sometimes, though.

Most of the time it won't because the wrong generic chipset , video and sounddrivers are loaded and windows won't boot.

Nasty

Sorry it took me a while, currently the laptop has been reformated twice and for whatever reason it won't load XP. My mom has the same laptop, I swapped drives, both machines boot. my moms comp. with dad's drive won't connect to the internet even through ethernet. I haven't looked for the drivers for the comp.

I installed XP from a computer that I built. I reformated through the main drive on that computer and when to install XP, I disconnected the main drive to that computer and loaded up from there. Maybe next time I'll try to get some win updates and some protection.

Also I meant to say I couldn't see the B.S. error message.

You can't load windows on a desktop pc and then put the drive into a laptop and expect it to work.

Nasty

Nasty's right on target. Different base drivers and components are loaded. It won't work.