New Mother Board + Old Hard Drive = BSOD?!

[Derwd24]

Well the drive itself has a lot of pins, about 1-3/4" stretch of them which then plugs into a black adapter of the same length that converts it all to a flat connection so it can slide into the mother board.

[KGIII]

Alright - thanks. I am still not QUITE sure but I have a hunch that I should know more about sometime tonight or, hopefully, tomorrow at the latest. This could be entertaining... I am not sure but I suspect that an update broke the ability to do a repair installation.

[Derwd24]

Good luck!  I'm getting the feeling this may be one of those Windows issues that seems like it should be a relatively easy fix but in reality simply can't be done due to the... questionability (for lack of a better word) of the OS.

[KGIII]

Still nothing. I have that PC through the weekend and into Monday. *sighs* I will let you know what I find. Let's hope, for your sake, it isn't XP Pro with EFS enabled... Damn it, damn it, damn it!!!

[KGIII]

Well... I have a dumb question.

Do you have plenty of free space (did you) before attempting the repair install? I was able to get past the BSOD by installing it over and over and over again but then it ended up in a funky activation loop that wouldn't ever let me into the OS again. Go figure? So - I ended up doing what you did and that is a side by side install.

You don't need to do another clean installation - you can simply (after getting all the data you want) treat it as a corrupt profile and pull your data over and then delete the first version of Windows and alter the boot.ini (if required) so that it only reflects the single instance of the OS.

Corrupt Profile:
http://kgiii.info...rupt_profile.html

[KGIII]

By the way, have you seen this?

How to troubleshoot "Stop 0x0000007B" errors in Windows XP:
http://support.mi...oft.com/kb/324103

[Derwd24]

Yes, I'm very familiar with all the Stop Error pages on the MS support site, unfortunately none of them had solutions that worked on this issue.  I'm going to borrow a friends external drive this week that's more than big enough to hold the data from my 60Gb drive and am tempted to run the ASR console just to see if it would be an effective solution to this issue, but I'm not sure if it would install the correct drivers when it reinstalls the data from the back up.  I'm curious to try though...  If I do end up treating it as a corrupt profile, as you suggested above, would all the app's transfer to the new installation of XP or would I have to reinstall them manually as they're on the same drive, but on the old installation that won't work with the new hardware.  In either case, I'll probably copy them to the external drive, then expand the new installation partition so it can hold all the data, and proceed from there.  Just not sure what gets incorporated into the profile method.  Thanks.

[KGIII]

Corrupt profiles transfers will save the data ONLY if it is moving the profile on the same instance of the OS. Instead, doing it this way, you can save whatever you had in your documents folder, your favorites, your desktop files (which are likely quite a few if you're like me), and that sort of thing. Programs will need to be, of course, re-installed on the new instance of the OS.

[Derwd24]

OK, thanks, I do have a ton of favorites, etc.  Do you think it's worth a shot to try the ASR, or is the chance of that installing the correct drivers slim to none?

[KGIII]

Honestly I doubt it will help but, frankly, it can't hurt. I think I figured out why the one I returned had issues. It seems that the owner had a copy of XP and had installed it more recently than 120 days on that same PC. They failed to understand the activation process and headed to their nearest warez site and opted to crack it. Thus the repair install wasn't working and wouldn't work properly. I did not get that last bit of information until just an hour or so ago.

[Derwd24]

Makes sense, any thoughts why mine won't load the correct drivers on the reinstall as the 120 day issue isn't a factor here...  Just curious as it seems it should work "on paper".

[KGIII]

Buggered if I can figure it out. I have asked and, not had answered, to have information given to me about any changes that may have been made in recent times concerning the repair installation process or if there were any updates that may have broken it.

[Derwd24]

I finally got the usb 120 Gb drive and am currently doing the backup portion of the ASR (which I think is just a standard back up).  Sloooow process for my 60 Gb drive, going to take almost 20 hours.  As I wait and cogitate, am wondering... if the reinstall with the ASR is unsuccessful and I have to reformat my 60 Gb drive and do a clean install, will the back up that's on the 120 Gb drive be accessible in terms of pulling data or is it that when it's written as back up, it's in a different format that can't be accessed that way?  If so, I'll have to just do a copy of my drive to that drive and pull the data from there, treating it as a corrupt ID from the new install as you'd suggested.  Thanks.

Addendum: When I first ran the ASR to do the back up, it wouldn't let me select the F drive and would only allow the current drive selection, which doesn't help me.  So I did a regular 20 hour backup of the F drive.  I went to use the ASR to restore the back up that I just did of F:, and it seems to be wanting to back up the C drive again, so I'm wondering if I can even use the ASR to back up and restore any drive other than the current C: drive?  I don't think doing just a regular backup restore would help with loading the new drivers I need?  I'm not familiar with the ASR and it seems to be a start to finish that not only backs up the current drive but also creates a floppy to boot from for restore.  There may be a way to get around the current drive issue and make the floppy for F: to try and restore it?

[KGIII]

ASR is pointless. See the main site for backup help. *sighs* Or get Vista. (Really... Except your hardware might not run it. Nor do I blame you or wish to "force" it on you.)

No you can't easily access it. I'd have just kept running with your repaired installation on another partition. Let that run, let it keep going and take your data from it, repair it as it it were a multiboot when it was done, and delete the offending data and then use the other partition as if it were one you had made specifically for backup and intentionally.

[Derwd24]

Actually you're wrong *sighs* (and this is my first on-line sigh!), ASR was far from pointless and actually accomplished what we were trying to do all along.  It installed the correct MB drivers on my hard drive after it reformatted, then it reinstalled the backed up files (which had to be done using the ASR utility as they're not the same as a standard back up it seems), and it's working great with my new hardware (which by the way is more than capable of running Vista, though I doubt I'll be going there any time soon).  Sure, I could have done what you mentioned above, but as I said eariler I was curious to see if this way would work, that's in part how I learn, and this time it paid off (I must admit I'm as surprised as I am happy).  One of my instructors in college used to say that any day you can learn something new is a good day, so I think we can both consider this in that category.

[KGIII]

It worked? Nice! I am impressed. All the times I have had ASR work I can count on a single hand. I usually just use one finger for ASR and you can guess which one that is.

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