Only recignises the HP as- storage device

I took the old hard drive out of my old computer which was an HP w/pentium II and installed it into a gateway w/ pentiumIII. I want to use the HP harddrive to boot because of the windowsXP profesional on it. but it only recegnises the HP as- storage device. waht can i do to fix it

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Hi, Have you checked the boot sequence in bios? Make sure it is booting from the hard drive first. If that still doesn't work, maybe it's because this is a different motherboard that you are installing the hard drive to. You might need to obtain a win xp cd and perform a repair of the Operating System or just wipe all data off (if you don't need any on it) and do a fresh install of windows xp.

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