BSOD after wipe, trying to install XP, trying to kill W7

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auxitrooper

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I wiped my hard drive so that I could re-install Windows XP, this was to get rid of Windows 7. The drive has been re-partitioned and formatted. Now, booting with the XP disc, it loads several drivers and tells me that Windows is starting (from the blue install screen) and then the BSOD comes up. I get this error: 0x0000007B (0xF78D663C, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).

I also ran Scandisk from a bootdisk and it says that there is a bad sector where IO.sys is kept. Occasionally when I reboot it still attempts to load windows 7.

So, where is windows 7 still hiding if the main partition and the restore partition were wiped? With the bad sector do I need a new hard drive? Ultimately I want XP on this machine, how can I make that happen from this point?
 
There's nothing still hiding. It just has to do with your drive configuration. Is your drive set to AHCI/RAID or IDE mode? (You can check under the "Drive Operations" settings in the BIOS)

XP doesn't have native AHCI/RAID drivers; you have to load them from floppy upon initial boot of the XP CD, or slipstream the drivers into the install using nLite.
 
I dont have that as a possible setting in the BIOS. I've seen that as a possible solution before but there is nothing relating to it on any page of the BIOS that I can edit (or not edit).
 
Your original post says it still tries to boot Win7. Did you delete ALL of the partitions on the drive?
 
Is this a laptop or desktop pc? Some laptops don't have the option to change from ahci to ide/compatibility and you would need to slipstream the sata controller driver into a new install cd.

Also, i highly recommend to run a drive diagnostic on the drive to test for more errors. What brand of hard drive is it?
 
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johnb35 said:
Is this a laptop or desktop pc? Some laptops don't have the option to change from ahci to ide/compatibility and you would need to slipstream the sata controller driver into a new install cd.
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I apologize for not mentioning that, it IS a laptop. What is this slipstream you speak of and how does one accomplish it? I have no flux capacitor.
 
Here is the issue. There may not be xp drivers available for your laptop. What make and model of laptop is this?
 
Well, right now the hp/compaq websites are down, can't access them so you'll have to wait until I can. Also are there any more model numbers after the cq62? Should be a sticker on the bottom of the laptop with the full model number.
 
Yes, that helps a lot as there are many different cq62 models. However, I still can't access Hp.com, it won't load for me. Open a broswer and try going there and see it works for you.
 
It still won't open for me for some reason. I'll try again tonight when I get home from work and see it works. I need to find out what chipset it has and see if i can find an xp driver for it.
 
You get the BSOD while booting of the Microsoft Windows XP CD-ROM disk?
If yes then that is because your hard disk drive is SATA.You must make an ISO image file of your XP disk then slipstream the AHCI SATA drivers in that ISO image file using the computer program called nLite and then burn that ISO image file on the blank CD-ROM disk and then boot from that burned CD-ROM disk.

You will must find the AHCI drivers for your chipset or try to find the ones which are universal and work on most chipsets...
 
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