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I have a new Dell running XP; I took the drive from my old Windows 2000 Professional machine and installed it in the new one. Visio 2000 is on the old drive but it won't start in the new machine. Any suggestions?

 

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November 7 2:10 PM (16 minutes and 7 seconds later)
         
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Hello,

Firstly if you want you can try a different tool that is free that does alot of the same thing as VISIO (HERE)

Secondly your Windows 2000 was installed and configured automatically with the hardware from your OLD computer. It wont have the proper drivers registered for the startup sequence, and can be a huge pain.

Make sure the harddrive has the proper jumper settings, and the "new harddrive" is not plugged in just yet. We do this during the repair process.

Then you use the windows 2000 cd, and boot off of it. Select the REPAIR INSTALLATION option. That will bring the OLD 2000 drive to work in your new computer.

Now you should be able to boot off of it.

The next step is to create a multiboot loader so you can choose if you want windows 2000 or windows XP to start.

You can ask another question later on how to deal with that if needed.

I hope this helps

Cheers




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