I use my Internal hardrive in another computer, but in that computer I get something like terminal, no GUI at all.

I have Two Compaq Presario computers I have been using for a very long time. (the older for over six years(came with Windows XP Home Edition.)) [the younger for about three(Windows Vista Home SP2.]. The Internal Hardrive in question belongs to and came with the older computer...

The older computer has been in use for a few months on the Ubuntu system and I upgraded from "8.10 Hardy Heron" to "10.04 Lucid" at the rate the "Update manager" would allow and suggest. For some time it worked fine.

Here are the specs on the older computer as I used the old one for a while:

Compaq Presario SR1303WM, Product#PP150AA, S/N CNH4501PZG

AMD Sempron Processor/CPU (Single/Mono Core) Two 256mb sticks of ram. And the HDD they have in common. Has a maximum storage of 40GB. (Very small, I know. But, consider the age.And not having a budget in the worst way.) Before I began using the second, much stronger computer, It performed fine with no aesthetic additions and no graphics card.

The specs on the newer computer:

AMD64 Athlon Dual Core Processor/ CPU The Stronger Computer with much less "lag."

Compaq Presario SR5113WM Product# GC662AA S/N CNH72518LG

Graphics by "NVIDIA" Two 526 Sticks of ram, and the HDD they have in common. (Max Storage of 40GB)

(NOTE, I am willing to furnish all information pertaining to the problem being solved and whatever makes this easier for you to help me, and I thank you again for your consideration.)

The Scenario in detail: The HDD(Hard Drive Disk) as described, the one they have in common is a "MAXTOR" brand "Fireball3" ATA/133 +12V.

I used the older computer, and the HDD I talked about excessively belongs to the older computer. I started out with Ubuntu 8.04, and upgraded it to 10.04LTS as the Update manager recommended. As I got to 10.04 everything was still gravy, and running fine.

I got Greedy though, I began swapping the hardrive between the two computers and the last time I did so I began to have issues. When I was using the stronger computer, I decided to download a graphics driver to make the computer able to use the NORMAL tier of graphics. After doing this, I noticed immediately that it made the computer sluggish and de-activated the function but I did not delete the graphics driver that helped me use the more advanced graphics because i did not know how to do it. I restarted the computer and turned it back off to

When I decided to transfer the Hard drive with the Graphics driving software I used on the better computer before, I did nothing to prepare it for the lesser computer. When I started the other computer up, It would flash the GUI and then go to an interface that was entirely text based. This is the issue, How do I make my GUI show on the lesser/older computer? I know I should delete the Graphics driving software but I do not have the slightest idea on how to get to delete it without the fear of deleting the wrong thing. I would really like to put this HDD back into the lesser computer because I have better plans for the Newer stronger computer.

Once again, I thank you for your consideration and offer any information you ask although if it involves using terminal I will need directions or commands to copy and create results for.

                                                               Thank you,
                                                                           Bruce E. Bell jr.