hi all! i have a query. i cloned a hdd from ide to SATA. now when i replaced
the ide with the exact copy on the SATA drive a blue screen is coming up
after POST giving 0x0000007B. I tried chkdsk, fixmbr, fixboot to no avail
keeps poppin up....any help? tnx!

i know its something to do with SATA driver??

Paul Smith wrote:

> hi all! i have a query. i cloned a hdd from ide to SATA. now when i
> replaced the ide with the exact copy on the SATA drive a blue screen is
> coming up after POST giving 0x0000007B. I tried chkdsk, fixmbr, fixboot to
> no avail keeps poppin up....any help? tnx!
>
> i know its something to do with SATA driver??

Do a Repair Install and press F6 early on to provide the SATA drive
controller drivers. You'll either need a floppy drive, a USB floppy drive,
or an install disk that has the controller drivers slipstreamed into it.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - Repair Install
How-To

Slipstream RAID or SATA controller drivers:
http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattende...d2e6f79256fc8/

Malke
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