Pc Blue screen, windows reinstallatin....etc.

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jimbojenkins

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I started out trying to repair a guys PC. It's an HP 531w. He had to use system restore numerous times, I formatted the HD and started the "copy file" section of the installation, and it wanted to skip numerous files, probably around 18 files. I tried to retry them, and eventually skipped them and setup would not complete, I tried 2 dif. disks, another cd rom, an dif. hard drive and dif. ram. I eventually took the hd out of that pc, and installed it into mine and installed Windows XP Home with no problem

After this I put the hd back into the other pc, and tried to boot up, it goes to the screen with the options to go to safe mode, start normally, use last known good config. etc. I tried them all and they all just restart, it goes to the HP logo and back to the safe mode, etc. screen.

I selected the part to not restart on an error so that I could see what the blue screen said, it was 0x0000007b and said that recently installed hardware, etc. could be causing the problem.

Help....
 
it is probily your cd drive. cant say for sure and having tried different ones makes me think it is something else. but you get the bsod (blue screen of death) is because you set it up using a diffeent computer and windows does not like it.
 
Is there any way around it, they pc the hard drive came out of, will not let me copy all of the setup files. However I did get the recovery console to come up, but it won't let me do much.
 
the only thing i can think of is to get a new drive. if you have a flash drive or a externel hd, you could copy the disk over by make it into a iso and extract it to the flash drive. i think it will boot. you may have to do something else and set your boot to flash
 
i know that you need to run a few things to make the flash bootable, but have you tested that HDD that you're trying to install to? that could be a problem. maybe a bad sector or similar issue. find a bootcd and run some HDD tests. Hiren makes a nice one.
 
Usually when it skips (in my experience) it's either an bad cd drive. If the hard drive is going out it will usually freeze... Make sure the CD's arent scratched. Get an HDD diagnostic program too, either the one the HDD came with or the software above. I have also had problems with slower and older cd drivers getting errors or stopping on drivers.cab....
 
i've seen the file skipping thing before and it was a dirty windows cd
so make sure there is nothing on that cd
 
the reason it doesn't work when you put the drive back into his PC is because it will ONLY boot in your PC because it's your PC's hardware it looks for when it boots.

As far as it not installing on his i would suggest getting a new HD perhaps and try installing on that....or replace the CD drive as preciously suggested
 
I've tried two cd's not scratched and they were clean, I took the cd rom out of my pc and tried it in his, no luck. I tried another HD and no luck.. I did however manage to get it installed on his HD, it did skip the files, and everything but finished the installation. The only thing I've seen that worried me was I clicked IE the other day and it restarted the computer, but it only done that one time.......seems to be running ok.
 
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