Stop error 74

[Dave August]

Hi guys,

To make my life eaysier I hooked up a harddisk to my target, formatted and
partitioned it in 2 partitions, a 500MB C: and a 1GB E:, I have a CD thats
D:. I installed W2K on E: and it boots fine... MY idea here was to dual boot
XPe off of C:.. I did this for several reasons, didn't want to burnout a CF
with all the FBA writes and wanted to have a net connection to make life
eayser to drag over test app stuff.. I've edited boot.ini and have no
problems booting W2K..

Ok here's the problem.. I copied my existing XPe build (that runs fine off
CF as C to C: and try booting it... BSOD Stop error 74
BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO.

To be safe, I did a DOS boot ran TA again rebuilt the system and same deal
BSOD Stop 74. FYI I origonally used FDISK and FORMAT to create the 500MB
Partition and even ran boot prep on it (even though I didn't think it would
be necessary since I was loading W2K) so that when I loaded W2K I could have
it fromat and use the second partition... So any ideas on the Stop Error?
Any ideas on how to debug it or where to look?

Oh yeah I haven't replaced any of the files in the root of C: that W2K put
there like ntldr ntdetect etc, all I do is copy over WERUNTIME.INI.. which
also begs the question, do I need to copy that over every time, all it has
is a different RunTimeGUID.

Dave

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Dave,

Oh yeah I haven't replaced any of the files in the root of C: that W2K put
there like ntldr ntdetect etc

This is the error you made.
You must use ntldr. and ntdetect that came with XPe since they are backward compatible with W2K vice versa is not true.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Dave August]

Slobodan,

Now I owe ya TWO dinners... lol.. works like a charm

Dave

 

[Andy Allred [MS]]

Dave, you can save yourself from becoming furhter indebted to Slobodan
by checking the Google archives of this Newsgroup for your issues.

Stop 74 is one of the easy ones <grin> Save this link:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&gro
up=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded

Good luck!

 

[Dave August]

Andy,

Saved the link and I'll use it, but I figure Sloboban likes a softball
thrown out every once and a while

I've also tried to contribute a bit by suggesting in a thread on CF cloning
that writing your own clone program with CreatFile(\\.\PHYSICALDRIVEx....)
is a pretty easy thing to do...

Dave

 

[Andy Allred [MS]]

Thanks for helping out here Dave, the community helping each other is
fantastic!

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Saved the link and I'll use it, but I figure Sloboban likes a softball

thrown out every once and a while

Regards,
Slobodan