Blue screen STOP error during Gateway Restore

shooter666 · 02-16-2009, 01:50 PM

I have a Gateway Laptop NX570X who's Western Digital SATA 80 GB hard drive went out. I bought a replacement Western Digital SATA 120 GB hard drive. (Same model as old one, just bigger capacity). I put the new one in, computer recognizes it fine and such. I then popped in the XP Media Center 2005 Operating System Disc in that Gateway includes with PC's. It will start the recovery process or prepare for it, but will always blue screen eventually. The last blue screen error was STOP 0X0000007D. Any ideas? I tried my own XP Home CD to see if that would go, but that then indicates it doesn't have any hard drive to install on. Again, the BIOS sees the hard drive fine so I'm sure it is hooked up correctly. I had read a little about these recovery CD's not having the proper drivers to do a automated install. Do I maybe need to boot up and format and partition the HD? The recovery CD is supposed to do that. Thanks for any and all help! I appreciate it!

Joe

rbalaji · 02-16-2009, 04:48 PM

From reading this, it sounds like a memory problem. I would suggest checking your memory using a utility like memtest86 or replace the sticks altogether.

02-16-2009, 01:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
shooter666 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Windows XP	Blue screen STOP error during Gateway Restore I have a Gateway Laptop NX570X who's Western Digital SATA 80 GB hard drive went out. I bought a replacement Western Digital SATA 120 GB hard drive. (Same model as old one, just bigger capacity). I put the new one in, computer recognizes it fine and such. I then popped in the XP Media Center 2005 Operating System Disc in that Gateway includes with PC's. It will start the recovery process or prepare for it, but will always blue screen eventually. The last blue screen error was STOP 0X0000007D. Any ideas? I tried my own XP Home CD to see if that would go, but that then indicates it doesn't have any hard drive to install on. Again, the BIOS sees the hard drive fine so I'm sure it is hooked up correctly. I had read a little about these recovery CD's not having the proper drivers to do a automated install. Do I maybe need to boot up and format and partition the HD? The recovery CD is supposed to do that. Thanks for any and all help! I appreciate it! Joe

02-16-2009, 04:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
rbalaji Tech, Microsoft Support Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicagoland Posts: 1,193 OS: Windows XP SP3	Re: Blue screen STOP error during Gateway Restore From reading this, it sounds like a memory problem. I would suggest checking your memory using a utility like memtest86 or replace the sticks altogether. __________________ Balaji Ramanathan Computers - You can't live with them, you can't live without them!