7b error.........

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Once I have prepared my target device for the new image that I have created,
and I have copied the image to the C drive and rebooted. On reboot i get the
bluescreen error 0x0000007b. The process I have followed is such:

create partition using diskpart (2048Mb)
format C drive for fat 32
run bootprep
copy across the image
reboot.........and hey presto - error message.


I feel that I am making a fundamental blunder somewhere !!!


Could someone help me out please?

Thanks

Craig Douglas
 
This is a very common error which you would have found information about had
you searched MSDN (or indeed just gone to the tips and tricks page on the
embedded site) or done a google groups search of this group.
The problem is that you're missing components required to boot on your
hardware - most likely the hard drive or IDE channel. Try using TAP instead
of TA.
 
Heidi,

thank you for your help on this. I apologise for my apparent lack of
research. My thought process had taken me down another avenue.

I thought the point of forums and newsgroups such as this was to help
people, not chastise them, no matter how trivial the question. It is
behaviour like this that can get groups a bad name and has been described by
others as 'technical snobbery'.

The other point to mention is that it is not always possible to run tap.exe
as this does not run in a dos environment. I do not have the resources on my
target machine to be able to make use of tap.exe. As i was able to satisfy
all the dependancies listed in the TD, I discounted the need of a
additional, unmentioned hard drive controller in my set up - surely this is
an area where the TA is lacking if this is the case? I was looking in the
area of bootprep.

Craig Douglas
 
msnews.microsoft.com said:
I thought the point of forums and newsgroups such as this was to help
people, not chastise them, no matter how trivial the question.
Click to expand...

Considering that those of us helping here do so on our own time I don't
think it's unreasonable to expect someone to spend 30 seconds looking on
google - especially as they're going to get their answer faster than by
asking a new question and waiting for us to reply.
 
Also, make sure the partition on C: is set "active". I had a similer (or identical) blue screen error when first trying to get XPe to boot. Bootprep will run on an inactive partition but the disk won't boot.
 
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