Hi
Big problems here.

I've got an XP (sp3) PC. It died. I put the hard drive into another PC
(Dell) and it won't load the HDD. Sit with a black screen for ever. I've
tried an XP repair and all that a few times. No go.

From hardware side all seems ok.

I can put it into another machine and see it. so that's one option.

Also, I have a Unix boot disk that I can use to access the registry.

Now is there anything I can change in registry to bring it back to
'standard' setting for MBoard and HDD so it may load.

(data is backed up, but there are lots of settings etc that will take a very
long time to setup again - been yrs of work)

Cheers
Mark