Trying to reinstall windows - BSOD after files have copied

indierocker85

I cannot believe what a fricking school boy error I think I have made.
I have had the drive hooked to the desktop via a USB caddy and not directly into the SATA port on the motherboard.

Now, I "think" this may have had something to do with it.

I will run the test as above, and see what happens. However, I suspect the SATA drivers are there, it is simply me being a complete yogurt

MadTechie

Link is at the bottom (download section)
Diagnostic tools for RAM and HDD URL="http://support.packardbell.com/uk/item/index.php?i=6917051000&ppn=PB34232101"]HERE[/URL
Your need to burn it to CD, without a Floppy drive the only way I know of adding drivers is by creating an custom WinXP Installer CD which can be a pain, so maybe save that for the last option!

Okay download the DiagCD23.exe from above, and it "should" create a CD for you (your need a blank CD and a CD-writer), boot it up on the Bell and run both tests (note I haven't used that CD I have my own tools), run the checks (as prompted) and then hopfully any issues will be fixed,
now boot from the XP setup disc and run the fixmbr and fixboot, then exit
if you have a recovery/repair disc that came with the PC i would suggest trying that first or if you have a repair/recovery partition try that (that's the one that may prompt to you press F11 at the start), if not then boot from XP setup disc and install as normal BUT delete ALL partitions on the driver your have problems with and then create a single partition (but if you have a partition called "recovery" then stop and reboot and look for a prompt on start up

MadTechie

LOL.. Oh the first rule is always remove ALL unneeded USB devices!
I had a PC that wouldn't boot if the webcam was plugged in!

indierocker85

MadTechie wrote: »

LOL.. Oh the first rule is always remove ALL unneeded USB devices!
I had a PC that wouldn't boot if the webcam was plugged in!

Well, I guess a wiseman learns from his mistakes lol

MadTechie

A wise-man learns from his mistakes, a really wiseman learns from other peoples mistakes