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Okay. So I've been fighting this all day, and thought maybe someone here could help...

I recently got a new computer, and my parent wanted to use my old one(which is still faster than theirs). All I would have to do is put their hard drive / DVD drives into my old rig and run the driver disks...

Well, I got the drives in and got it powered up, and Windows XP crashes. Not surprising, so I went into safe mode and installed the drivers from my old mobo/GPU disks. Windows still crashed when I tried to restart normally...But the only driver that wouldn't install was some SATA RAID manager or something, which I didn't think would matter considering they only have a single IDE drive.

I tried using the infernal built-in "Help and Support" utility and PCDoctor, which gladly told me nothing was wrong. So I looked on teh interwebz for some answers, and found several solutions involving making an image of the drive on another HDD and using the XP CD's Repair utility. That would be the next step I'm about to try, but it would involve taking the extra HDD out of this computer to save the image onto, so I'll be offline for awhile. If that doesn't work, I'll be checking back here for some tips before my last resort of throwing it out the window.

you could just use the windows repair on the xp install cd as it is and it should work

I would've done that, but I'm making a backup copy just in case something goes wrong with the reinstall and it gets all messed up...I've just had some bad experience with Windows tools erasing data and don't want it to happen again.

Well...Halfway through repairing windows, it started doing the same thing as before...It would show the Windows XP loading screen for awhile, then reboot. So now it won't go back to the setup menu for reinstalling, and when I try to go to safe mode it says "Setup will not work in Safe Mode" and restarts again. So it's basically useless, and I have no clue what else I can do with it.

I ended up formatting the C: drive and reinstalling Windows completely. Seems to have fixed the problem, now all I have to do is figure out how to transfer the old files back to the "new" computer. Thanks for all your help everyone!

That's what I was gonna recommend Hard drives don't always do well with new hardware without a format.