[Emyr88]

Hi all this is my first post so please don't shoot me if I get anything wrong here.


Rite a bit of a long story cut short... I was running Vista (Basic) up until a couple of days ago when it decided it would throw an error as I turned it on where it gave me 2 options:

1. Start Windows normally
2. Start using some repair thing (recommended)

Sure you've all seen this before... Well I thought no problem just a little inconvenience, anyway I tried the start normal...Had no luck then tried the other option still no luck, it was as if it was stuck in a loop, kept restarting my PC then bringing up the same screen.

I then tried running the Dell disk called "Operating System" where I tried running a repair this was going fine untill it tried to "fix the problem" it took over 30 Hours and suddenly went off ( I don't know how because I woke up and it was off) anyway my hard drive was even worse now because it couldnt detect an OS on it when I go to repair it .

I bought a new 250Gb hard drive (Maxtor STM3250310AS) and stuck it in and took my other hard drive out. I had a perfectly legal XP Pro disk (through MSDNaa) which I tried installing on to it. It got as far as "Setup is starting Windows" then I got a much loved blue screen of death with the Error code 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I tried looking on the microsoft website for solutions but can't figure out how to resolve this as I can't even access a Windows OS.

This is what I'm running:
Dell Dimension E520
Intel Core 2 duo E6600
4 Gb RAM - (I know Vista Basic can only read up tp 3GB but was going to upgrade soon)
Maxtor STM3250310AS Hard Drive
CD-ROM drive

I managed to load and install Ubuntu Linux on to it with no problem what so ever can anyone explain how on earth I can get past this error code? Oh and by the way I do not have a floppy drive.

Thanks everyone hope this is easy to resolve

Emyr

[Gr1nd5550]

Hey, some other guy had this same problem. One thing you could try is go to the BIOS and reset it to default (factory mode)
This will reset any settings which may be effecting the installation of windows. The other guy's problem was that the hdd was set up for RAID.

Good luck there mate.

And by the way: Nice PC