Problem moving old hard drive

[Oran L]

I recently built a new workstation from the ground up, and left out a
hard drive on purpose. The plan was to use the hard drive that was in
use on the computer the new workstation was replacing (a Dell Dimension
9100), and just re-activate the windows installation. The new
workstation booted fine using a blank PATA test drive and a Windows XP
installation CD. I moved the old hard drive (which happens to be SATA)
to the new workstation and started the computer. The POST ran and the
on-board SATA RAID configuration said that there was only one disk and
continued loading windows, but then a STOP error 0x0000007B came up. I
have already looked through all of Microsoft's KB articles concerning
this specific error code, and the one that best matched my situation is
here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082/ I followed the solution
which included adding information to the registry by reinstalling the
hard drive back into the Dell, which then booted fine, and adding the
appropriate entries. I think this fix only works for PATA drive though,
but I'm not sure. It didn't work for this hard drive though (an 80 GB
Maxtor brand), but it made Windows load a little bit more before giving
the same STOP error again.

I don't know if this helps but:
When I tried to load the Windows XP installation disk again, with the
Maxtor installed, it told me that there were no drives installed on the
computer. Could this be the on-board RAID controller making a mess of
things?

ANY HELP YOU HAVE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

Thanks,

Oran

 

[DL]

If I read you correctly you are installing an existing HD that has the o/s
on it into a new system and attempting to boot with this.
Unless the hw, chipset drivers etc are identical you need to do a repair
installation and install chipset and other drivers for your new sys.
And if the existing o/s is OEM (Since you state Dell) it may be locked to
the origonal sys.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response. I figured out what was causing the problem. The
onboard RAID array was taking control of the hard drive, and Windows couldn't
detect it when it tried to boot. I fixed this with a setting in the BIOS that
changed the drive controller from RAID to IDE. It came up with another error,
0x0000007E, because I moved from an Intel Pentium D to an AMD Athlon 64. The
fix for this is found here: http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=8769.
Once I fixed both of these issues, I just needed to re-activate Windows, and
everything was fine.

Thanks for the help!

Oran

 

[Paul Johnson]

I recently built a new workstation from the ground up, and left out a
hard drive on purpose. The plan was to use the hard drive that was in
use on the computer the new workstation was replacing (a Dell Dimension
9100), and just re-activate the windows installation.

Linux can do that if you use the stock kernel that came with your distro in
the vast majority of cases, but Windows cannot. You'll need to back up
what you want to save from your current configuration and reinstall from
scratch on this one. Same when you change motherboards.

The POST ran and the on-board SATA RAID configuration said that there was
only one disk and continued loading windows, but then a STOP error
0x0000007B came up.

You'll probably have to hit F6 when you start your install to provide
drivers as well...be sure to have a driver floppy in advance.