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blue screen error while installing xp from usb flash drive

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Hi, i have install xp from usb in many pc but when i install in dell gx260 it says setup is starting windows and a blue screen error comes.

my bootable usb is OK and working fine on other systems.

kindly guide me what to do.

Regards
Junaid Ahmed
Asst IT Manager
Alkaram Towel Industries

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For the love of god, what is the BSOD error?

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And you claim to be an IT manager. I cannot fathom why people think mentioning that there is an error, but not what the actual error is is of any use to anyone whatsoever.

</rant>

So, what is the error message, that someone may help you with this. Being an IT professional, I would imagine that you might even look up the error yourself, but yeah, we’ll look it up for you.

thanks for taunting seanferd

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hi, 1st of all am not IT MANAGER OK and if you are better than me then its good for you but don’t show off your self.. am here to get some help and you taunt me like a child. anyway the error code is 0x0000007b but for you i have uploaded the image.. you can see it here.. http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9704/0x0000007b.jpg

thanks for your precious time.

Sorry, that’s what it said at the bottom of the post.

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I am not trying to taunt you or insult you, I just can’t understand why people report “errors” without ever giving the error message. It really helps to have that information!

By the way, I’m not an IT professional at all, and I am constantly floored by the inability of professionals, with the resources at their disposal, to work out some of these issues when I can in my spare time.

Since you are getting other answers, I’ll just back out, since I have obviously offended you deeply.

Cheers.

edit: OK, you still haven’t gotten an answer after providing further information, so I’ve added a post. Good luck, I know it can be a pain to get that to work sometimes.

It seems you have found

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“The most popular Blue Screen of Death error”.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/stop0x0000007b.htm

Since nothing at that article directly addresses Flash drives, we need to address specific issues for USB Flash booting: How did you configure the image on the drive, what type of image is it, and what method did you use to make it bootable?

Some references which may help you, regardless:
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&&sa=X&ei=ZxolTPj5M4eglAfZlNnZAg&ved=0CCkQBSgA&q=install+XP+from+flash+drive

Edit: I see from reading your other responses that this works on some systems excepting a few Dells. I could not get this to work on a Latitude D620 no matter what I did. I tried several different methods of imaging (both slip-streamed and not)and making the drive bootable. It may just be the Dell models.

edit2: Further, I was able to boot the machine from Flash, just not with the XP installation setup. Actually, it booted on one or two tests, but could not complete installation. And this was not a SATA HDD driver problem (XP has no native SATA support, but BIOS was set to an unalterable “compatibility mode”).

you are right seanferd

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thanks for your reply seanferd, this problem is only with dell series, maybe its not supported anyway thanks

Your “bootable usb is OK and working fine on other systems”?

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What are you trying to do?
More details please. 🙂

am trying to install xp from a usb flash drive

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as i write in the title.. am trying to install xp pro from a usb flash drive and its working on other systems except dell gx260, gx270, gx280.

every thing is ok but when it says : setup is starting windows, a bsod error 0x0000007b comes.

i want to know if there is any solution to this or the dell series is not compatible?

thanks for your time
have a nice day.

All i can say is that some machines cut the USB power off…

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Some computers, when starting, cut off (or suspend) the power until the software is nearly fully booted. This might be the cause in your case. Or, you could get a more powerful power supply unit to fit to your Dell machines if at all possible.

maybe

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Peconet Tietokoneet thanks for your info.. maybe you are right…

Must you use the USB?

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Have you tried copying the installation files to the hard drive and installing from there? How about a DVD?

Are you doing a ‘clean’ install on a blank hard drive, or upgrading a previous version of Windows? If upgrading, are you booting from the USB or allowing the previous version to boot and then starting the upgrade?

am doing clean install

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thanks for you time Palmetto, am doing a clean install on a blank hard drive.

So copy the installation files

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from the USB drive to the hard drive and install from there.

Well reading the M$ Knowledge Base 324103 here

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103

It really appears to be either a Hardware Issue with that Hardware not supporting the Loading of the necessary Files from USB or a Driver Issue where the Driver is not set to Load on Startup.

Yea I know that here you are attempting to install the OS so I really would say that this is a Driver Issue and that you will be unable to load these model Dell’s from a USB Device. 😉

Col

maybe this could be a driver issue

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thanks OH Smeg, everyone is saying different things lol what can i say.. the only thing i know is dell series is not booting windows. anyway again thanks for your time.

If it is

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and you have no good way to install a SATA driver after pressing F6 (e.g., from floppy or another Flash drive), and assuming it is not a USB oriented issue: Try turning off AHCI in bios (set it to compatibility mode) if it is not already set thus.

BSOD Error

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Resolution
Note: Some of these steps may require you to access Windows via Safe Mode. If that’s not possible then skip those steps.

1.Restart your computer if you haven’t already done so. The STOP 0x0000007B blue screen error might be a fluke.

2.Did you just install or make a change to a hard drive controller? If so, there’s a good chance that the change you made caused the STOP 0x0000007B error.

Undo the change and test for the 0x7B blue screen error.

Depending on what changes you made, some solutions might include:

?Remove or reconfigure the newly installed hard drive controller.
?Startup with Last Known Good Configuration to undo related registry and driver changes.
?Use System Restore to undo recent changes.
?Rollback hard drive controller device driver to version prior to your driver update.
3.Verify that the SCSI chain is correctly terminated, assuming you’re using SCSI hard drives in your computer. Incorrect SCSI termination has been known to cause STOP 0x0000007B errors.

dmiles :)

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thanks for your reply.. but here am installing a clean install on a new hard drive *not repairing old windows.

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I joined this site, like me so many of my friends (like you!) end up in this site for no gain,
if any of u used the app wintoflash or that usb multiboot thing? so after trying all that, still ur stuck at the bsod with the above said error.
Try changing ur sata drive in ur bios to IDE , it shud be in AHCI or for some RAID.
XP doesnt support sata still.
And I’m 14 years old

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