It actually wouldn't be a good idea to move your Mom's harddrive into your computer - the OS was configured during installation to work with a particular motherboard and system configuration - your mom's - and putting it into a new machine, unless the motherboard make is nearly the same, could result in confusion and instability for Windows.
The version of Windows on your computer likely had nothing to do with the crash. If the computer can't find the boot sector, that means that area of the drive was somehow damaged. I hope it's possible to recover your data, but the boot sector is always the first part of the drive to be accessed for any reason...an error there is very bad news.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-09-03 10:17 am (UTC)The version of Windows on your computer likely had nothing to do with the crash. If the computer can't find the boot sector, that means that area of the drive was somehow damaged. I hope it's possible to recover your data, but the boot sector is always the first part of the drive to be accessed for any reason...an error there is very bad news.