[kwwhite1983]

I have searched google and could find no relevant fixes to my situation.

My computer got some nasty viruses on it and so I decided to just swap the hard drive with the one from my moms older computer. As I have been using that older computer for a couple months, I can confirm that the hard drive works and is virus free. It also already has windows xp installed and the most recent windows updates.

When I boot up my computer after removing the hard drive and plugging in the new one, I get the blue screen error 0x0000007e. No specific file or driver is listed.

Can anyone suggest a way to fix this? Maybe there are some bios settings I need to change? The only things I have ruled out is that it isn't a problem with the ram and that bios has this hard drive listed as the master. Thank you all for your time in reading this.

 

[kwwhite1983]

Oh I forgot to mention that I can get to the login screen to enter windows in safe mode, but when I select to login as administrator it says that I need to activate my copy of windows which I found odd as it has already been activated. So as it stands I cannot get into safemode but I possibly could if it weren't for that odd activation problem.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hello,

This is quite likely a driver issue, as the old hard drive does not have the proper drivers loaded for your hardware. The activation issue is similar; the activation is tied to the particular hardware of your mother's machine.

I suggest you wipe the old hard drive completely; boot up to the recovery console, and in the command prompt, enter the following:

diskpart
list disk

Make note of the number of the main hard drive, and replace it with X in the below commands:

select disk X
clean all

That will wipe EVERYTHING on the drive, so be sure you don't have anything you want to keep on it. If you do, boot up an Ubuntu Live CD, and copy the files to an external hard drive or USB drive.

Then do a clean install of Windows.

 

[spunk.funk]

When you install Windows on a particular computer it takes a snapshot of the chipset and hardware of the computer and loads specific drivers for that motherboard. When you take the HDD out of that computer and put it on another you get a BSOD because Windows is looking for that specific hardware. If you want to use that HDD and OS then boot off of the XP CD and do a Repair Install, you may need to Activate it again by internet when complete. Or do a fresh install.

 

[Vladimar234]

Occasionally you can move and installation from one computer to another. Sometimes it works just fine, with some minor driver issues, sometimes it works but runs buggy (BSODs, etc...) and sometimes it will not boot at all.

One method to make this work is to run a Repair Install on the installation after the HD has been transferred to the new hardware. If you can boot to Safe Mode, you might be able to avoid this by installing the motherboard chipset drivers, and whatever other drivers are needed.