[Thrillhouse]

I am attempting to boot or recover or even reimage a hard drive that already has windows xp installed on it that I am putting in a Dell Studio Hybrid 140g (it's original hard drive is dead)

When I try to boot to windows it just restarts everytime I try safe mode, last good config or normal boot.

I figured maybe I should reimage or attempt to recover the installation but when I boot to my windows xp professional disk it gets a bsod with this error after it loads most of the drivers:


STOP: 0x0000007B (0XF78D663C,0XC0000034,0X00000000,0X00000000) error.


I'm assuming this has something to do with the hardware in the little pc but can't seem to find drivers anywhere and Dell support is essentially non-existant especially given that my "Service tag warranty is expired"

Anyone who's run into this or something similiar that could give some tips or advice would be really appreciated.

 

[Thrillhouse]

Places I have gone are telling me to go into the bios and "Go into the Bios of the Studio by pressing F2 and change the Hard Disk from AHCI to IDE"

There is no option for this anywhere in the bios.

 

[spunk.funk]

If this HDD you are putting into this computer had XP installed on it from a different computer, then this computer will restart or Blue Screen.
When you install Windows on a computer, Windows takes a snapshot of the available Hardware and Chipset. When you remove that HDD and place it into a different computer with a different chipset, then Windows looks for that hardware and can't find it. Hence, BSOD. You would need to do a Repari Install to use the HDD this way. It would be better if you booted off of the XP CD and Deleted the partition, Created a new Partition, Formatted NTFS, and and Installed Windows. If you want to image the OS that is on there now, put it back in the computer it came in and then image it. If you just want to get at the personal data, pull the drive and attach it to a working computer with a USB Adapter then drag and drop your files to that computer.

 

[Fred Garvin]

Places I have gone are telling me to go into the bios and "Go into the Bios of the Studio by pressing F2 and change the Hard Disk from AHCI to IDE"

There is no option for this anywhere in the bios.

Is the hard drive a SATA drive? There has to be something in your BIOS setup where you can change its "mode" from SATA to maybe compatible mode or something like that.