Install Issues 0x0000007b

[James T]

I have a HP pavillion that came with Vista and a recovery partition. Since I
was not real happy with Vista, I decided to remove the recovery partition and
made the jump to Win7Beta and had no issues. Due to some small compatability
issues with some older games, I installed a second HD (smaller) and installed
XP on it and had a dual boot system. All was good. I had planned on
upgrading to win 7 however due to finanancial issues wasand will not be able
to upgrade to win 7 any time soon so I decided to revert back to XP on my
larger HD (that came with Vista installed).

During the install, I'm getting the following error: Stop: 0x0000007B
(0xf78d2524, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).

I know the HD is good because I was able to reload win 7 to it and I know
both XP install disks are good as I did a fresh insall on the smaller HD.

From what I can tell, It's a driver issue with the HD Controller however how
can I find one I can use during the install? According to Hitachi's website
"Current operating systems, including Windows Vista, XP and 2000, and Mac OS
X, already include pre-installed drivers for the hard disk drive itself. No
additional drivers are required." so that is no help.

What other options do I have?

Thanks

 

[DL]

It means your boot drive is unavailabe.
I suspect its a sata drive and as such you need to either amend your AHCI
settings in the bios
PS Unless winxp is sp1 or later a drive larger than 127gb may not be
utilised in full

 

[Peter Foldes]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms795508.aspx
and
http://aumha.org/a/stop.php#0x7b

 

[HeyBub]

I have a HP pavillion that came with Vista and a recovery partition.
Since I was not real happy with Vista, I decided to remove the
recovery partition and made the jump to Win7Beta and had no issues.
Due to some small compatability issues with some older games, I
installed a second HD (smaller) and installed XP on it and had a dual
boot system. All was good. I had planned on upgrading to win 7
however due to finanancial issues wasand will not be able to upgrade
to win 7 any time soon so I decided to revert back to XP on my larger
HD (that came with Vista installed).

During the install, I'm getting the following error: Stop: 0x0000007B
(0xf78d2524, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).

I know the HD is good because I was able to reload win 7 to it and I
know both XP install disks are good as I did a fresh insall on the
smaller HD.

From what I can tell, It's a driver issue with the HD Controller
however how can I find one I can use during the install? According
to Hitachi's website "Current operating systems, including Windows
Vista, XP and 2000, and Mac OS X, already include pre-installed
drivers for the hard disk drive itself. No additional drivers are
required." so that is no help.

What other options do I have?

Thanks

"The "Stop 7B" error occurs when your configuration is missing a component
that is required to boot your device. Examples of these components include
the PCI bus and the IDE controller."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms940177(WinEmbedded.5).aspx

What did you use to "install XP"?

 

[John John - MVP]

Thanks

I've tried with both a CD and DVD drives, same result.

there have been a couple of times where it made it to the "select a
partition to install XP" only nothing was listed as a valid partition. Keep
in mind that I have reinstalled Win7 on the hard drive and is currently
working just fine.

I'm still lost has to how to fix it.

You need to supply the controller drivers to the Windows setup program,
these drivers *MUST* be supplied on a floppy diskette or they must be
incorporated (slipstreamed) into the Windows XP CD. The only other way
around the problem is to change the hard drive mode in the BIOS.

John

 

[James T]

You need to supply the controller drivers to the Windows setup program,
these drivers *MUST* be supplied on a floppy diskette or they must be
incorporated (slipstreamed) into the Windows XP CD. The only other way
around the problem is to change the hard drive mode in the BIOS.

John
.

Thanks John and I just confimred via Hitachi's website that

"Windows XP and Windows 2000 do not natively include drivers for SATA
controllers (add-in or on-board), so you must install them during the
installation of the operating system. The system, motherboard, or controller
manufacturer usually supplies these drivers, either on a driver CD or
downloadable from their web site. "

"Note: the installation process specifically looks at the A: (floppy) drive
for the updated drivers. This is a limitation imposed by the installation
routine. You cannot load the drivers using any other media. "

Since this is an SATA drive, and I do not have a floppy drive per the above
info, It sounds like I either need to purchase a non SATA hardrive or
purchase a floppy drive and install it. I'll need to think about this one
but atleast I understand the issue now.

Thanks

 

[John John - MVP]

Thanks John and I just confimred via Hitachi's website that

"Windows XP and Windows 2000 do not natively include drivers for SATA
controllers (add-in or on-board), so you must install them during the
installation of the operating system. The system, motherboard, or controller
manufacturer usually supplies these drivers, either on a driver CD or
downloadable from their web site. "

"Note: the installation process specifically looks at the A: (floppy) drive
for the updated drivers. This is a limitation imposed by the installation
routine. You cannot load the drivers using any other media. "

Since this is an SATA drive, and I do not have a floppy drive per the above
info, It sounds like I either need to purchase a non SATA hardrive or
purchase a floppy drive and install it. I'll need to think about this one
but atleast I understand the issue now.

If the computer has a floppy controller you can scrounge a floppy drive
from another machine. Or you can simply slipstream the drivers to the
Windows XP CD:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...eam+sata+drivers&fr=yfp-t-501&fr2=sfp&iscqry=

John

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Post here for assistance:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpinstall/threads

<QP>
0x0000007B: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
Windows lost access to the system partition or boot volume during the
startup process. Typical causes: Installing incorrect device drivers when
installing or upgrading storage adapter hardware, *or a virus*. [emphasis
mine]
</QP>
Source: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

 

[Paul]

Thanks John and I just confimred via Hitachi's website that

"Windows XP and Windows 2000 do not natively include drivers for SATA
controllers (add-in or on-board), so you must install them during the
installation of the operating system. The system, motherboard, or controller
manufacturer usually supplies these drivers, either on a driver CD or
downloadable from their web site. "

"Note: the installation process specifically looks at the A: (floppy) drive
for the updated drivers. This is a limitation imposed by the installation
routine. You cannot load the drivers using any other media. "

Since this is an SATA drive, and I do not have a floppy drive per the above
info, It sounds like I either need to purchase a non SATA hardrive or
purchase a floppy drive and install it. I'll need to think about this one
but atleast I understand the issue now.

Thanks

Why not go into the BIOS screens, and set the controller to a non-AHCI
operating mode ? Then retry the install.

You don't say what Pavilion computer you have, but if there is an
Intel chipset, the SATA interface options in the BIOS may include
IDE, AHCI, RAID. For computers that ship with Vista or Win7, the
manufacturer may have set the BIOS to AHCI. If you're installing
WinXP and only running WinXP regularly on the computer, you can
try "IDE", or at least try using something other than AHCI or
RAID as your choice. Then you may get around the boot issue.

Paul