BSOD on HD swap from T22 to T23

[Nolonemo]

I'm curious about something....

I have a dual boot system that doesn't use a 3rd party boot manager. It was set up like this: HD formatted to 3 partitions, Win98 installed on C: (primary partition), then Win XP set up on D:, data resides on E. So it's your typical Windows-only dual boot setup.

I took the HD out of the T22 where it was when the OSs etc were installed, and popped it into a T23. It would boot fine into Win98, but if I tried to boot into XP it would BSOD right away, saying windows shut down to prevent damage to the computer, etc. A repair install of XP fixed the problem, and all seems to work normally.

The thing I'm curious about was why 98 would boot but XP would BSOD (I would have expected Win98 to be more crash-prone if there was some incompatible system-board device driver loaded). (I should note that I didn't do things like unistall the IDE etc drivers before moving the drive over)

Comments or ideas?

[djpharoah]

windows 98 had less emphasis on hardware.
what i mean is that unlike xp which requires the same/similar harddrive to work. windows 98 would work on almost any setup. all you had to do was reinstall the drivers..

-dj