I'm new to the forums so if I do anything wrong or anything like that just let me know.
Anyhow, I did a quick search and couldn't find my problem in these forums or online anywhere. Hopefully it's simple and I'm just missing something.
My dad recently got a new computer (can't currently check the specs as I'm not at home), and he wanted to put all the stuff on the old HDD onto the new one. Well I checked out the new computer and found that everything is better except the hard drive (only a 20g compared to his current 80g). So I decided I would just swap HDD's. Everything went well in swapping, and I checked BIOS to make sure it was recognized as master and boot priority 1. Then I let it boot... It goes to a screen asking if I want to "Start my computer normally" with other options such as safe mode, command prompt, last known configuration... When I try any of these it just restarts and goes through the whole process again. I've hooked up the new HDD as the primary and the old one as secondary to see if the drive still works, and everything checked out. So I have no idea whats going on and gave up with trial and error testing, decided to give this a try instead.
Anyhow, I did a quick search and couldn't find my problem in these forums or online anywhere. Hopefully it's simple and I'm just missing something.
My dad recently got a new computer (can't currently check the specs as I'm not at home), and he wanted to put all the stuff on the old HDD onto the new one. Well I checked out the new computer and found that everything is better except the hard drive (only a 20g compared to his current 80g). So I decided I would just swap HDD's. Everything went well in swapping, and I checked BIOS to make sure it was recognized as master and boot priority 1. Then I let it boot... It goes to a screen asking if I want to "Start my computer normally" with other options such as safe mode, command prompt, last known configuration... When I try any of these it just restarts and goes through the whole process again. I've hooked up the new HDD as the primary and the old one as secondary to see if the drive still works, and everything checked out. So I have no idea whats going on and gave up with trial and error testing, decided to give this a try instead.