Windows XP and MS Backup

[Greg Michael]

Hello.

I'm hoping that someone here will have some insight as to my problem. I
recently moved, and during the move, my primary hard drive died. I had
backups of the drive using MS backup on a regularly scheduled time. No big
concern, right?

Apparently not.

I have been able to install my copy of Win XP on the new HDD, and then I run
the MS Backup to restore from the backup files I have on one of the other
drives from the machine. When I restore the System State backup, and then
reboot, I get a BSOD just after seeing the splash screen. The stop error is a
0x7b error. I have tried using the recovery console to run FixMBR and
Fixboot, but neither have worked. I'm really stuck, because I can't seem to
find what is causing the problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
Greg

 

[cornedbeef007-groups]

Hello.

I'm hoping that someone here will have some insight as to my problem. I
recently moved, and during the move, my primary hard drive died. I had
backups of the drive using MS backup on a regularly scheduled time. No big
concern, right?

Apparently not.

I have been able to install my copy of Win XP on the new HDD, and then I run
the MS Backup to restore from the backup files I have on one of the other
drives from the machine. When I restore the System State backup, and then
reboot, I get a BSOD just after seeing the splash screen. The stop error is a
0x7b error. I have tried using the recovery console to run FixMBR and
Fixboot, but neither have worked. I'm really stuck, because I can't seem to
find what is causing the problem.

Any suggestions?

Good news and bad news. You might be able to fix, and you might not!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316401

Good Luck.

 

[Greg Michael]

Unfortunately, that is one article that I am all too familiar with so far.
I'm starting to do a file by file comparison between the vanilla install, and
my System State backup to see if there's a glaring difference in the boot.ini
or other informational file that might help.