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cant reinstall windows XP!!

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by Arren, 2007/09/04.

  1. 2007/09/04
    Arren

    Arren Inactive Thread Starter

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    Ok i have had this computer for 2,5 years. Now its pretty laggy and crashes sometimes, so i desided to reinstall windows. (I have XP home edition).
    I did everything with instructions and got pretty far.

    http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic8356.html

    I just found this when i searched answer to my problem. And my problem is that in last (3rd) picture of that web instruction, when you must choose the drive where you want to install new windows, it doesnt say C/Windows. It says two times "unknown disk ". Then when i try to choose it, bluescreen bumbs out with explanation that windows was closed for some reason. Also error "STOP: 0x0000007B "
    Whats going on and what could i do ??
     
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  2. 2007/09/04
    PeteC

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    Arren - Welcome to the Board :)

    The error code indicates that the hard drive is inaccessible .....

    0x0000007B: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

    Do you have a SATA drive? - if you do you will need to load the SATA drivers when requested - there is an instruction at the bottom of one of the first blue screens to press F6 to load third party drivers and later on in the install process you will be asked to insert a floppy disk with the SATA drivers on it. These are on the motherboard CD together with instructions as to how to copy them to floppy. Note - you cannot use a CD, must have a floppy drive.
     
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  4. 2007/09/05
    Arren

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    ok i found a floppy wich said "sata driver disk" wrote on it. I putted it in, pressed f6 on menu screen chose one of the drivers. But in next page it still says that i only have 2 "unknown disks ". But it also changed the error message.
    Todays error message is:

    STOP: 0x00000050 "

    And it also said that problem accured in setupdd.sys

    Any new ideas ?
     
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  5. 2007/09/05
    PeteC

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    Are you sure that you have a SATA drive? Do you have 2 hard drives? Do you know if these hard drives are set in RAID 0 - two hard drives which run in parallel and appear as one? Was that floppy supplied with the computer?

    Having pressed F6 during setup and got to the stage where you are asked to insert the floppy disk and click OK - or whatever how many drivers are listed on the screen. If more than one you will need to install all of them, one at a time. When you have installed the first you will get a message on the blue screen along the lines of 'Do you want to install further drivers? - follow the on screen instructions to load further drivers.

    However you may have another problem .....

    0x00000050: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA -
    A setupdd.sys error, referenced here .....

    Windows XP problems with damaged or incompatible hardware
    and
    So the error code and the setupdd.sys error are related. We can assume I guess that your hardware is compatible with XP as you have been running it, but you may have a hardware problem which may be the cause of ....
    You should check out your memory using Windows Memory Diagnostic or Memtest - both run at boot from a floppy or CD. Note this quote from MS ....
    Meaning that just because no errors are found by WMD or Memtest does not mean that there aren't any. But that is a first step - note the comment re. memory in the MS article above.
     
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  6. 2007/09/06
    Arren

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    ok i reinstalled my PCI hardwares and used all of the SATA drivers at the same time. And it worked. Now i can see the blue sky of windows default background.
    Thanks for help Pete.
     
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  7. 2007/09/06
    PeteC

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    You're welcome - glad to hear of your success :)
     
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