black screen with rectangles on bootup

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ddyreson

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I replaced a Seagate 60 gig harddrive with a Maxtor 80 gig in a 2 year old HP Pavilion computer. On bootup, I get a black screen with several colorful rectangles with either letters or colons or arrows inside the rectangles. I know the new harddrive works because I had it previously slaved into a different computer. What gives? Thanks.
 
so you took a harddrive from another pc and put it on this pc as a master and you are now getting these problems correct? Are these pc the same?
 
so you took a hdd with an os already on it and put it on a diff. computer. You cant do. 95% of the time, it wont work. Driver conflicts, etc. There are drivers on that hdd that are different tha what is on the pc right now
 
you can slave it and then format it and then instal xp on it after you switch it from slave to master
 
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