Boot Problem

stevie33

My friend was getting the blue screen every time he loaded up his computer saying " A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prvevent damage to your computer," giving some code which I took down just in case.

So I decided to take the hard disk and add it to my computer and sure enough when windows ran it detected damaged sectors so after agreement I recovered his documents then wiped the computer and re-installed windows.

I tested it out as running as the lone hard disk on my computer and it worked perfectly but when I put back into his machine the same blue screen keeps coming up. I have tried every startup (Start Windows Normally, Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configurations etc.) but nothings worked.

I'd really appreciate any help or a point in the right direction. Cheers

Cuddlesworth

stevie33 wrote:

My friend was getting the blue screen every time he loaded up his computer saying " A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prvevent damage to your computer," giving some code which I took down just in case.

And the code was?

Did you run a checkdisk on the drive to see if any of the hard drive sectors are damaged?

Put the drive in as a slave, go into my computer, rightclick on said slave drive, click on properties, then tools, then error checking and tick both boxs. Stand back and watch the loading bar for 30 minutes. Then reap the glory of you loading bar watching skills.

Where are my pants, I know I left them around here somewhere?

stevie33

The Code was "Stop: 0x00000078
(0xF7C86528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

will try what you've said and get back to u with an update, cheers.

Redisle

wait a minute... did you install xp on his hard drive while it was in your computer? you cannot install xp on a disc then move the hd to another pc.. it recognizes the massive hardware change.. you need to install xp on your friends pc while the harddrive is in your friends pc.
Sorry if ive got you wrong but it sounds like thats what you did.

Anti

ab_cork wrote:

wait a minute... did you install xp on his hard drive while it was in your computer? you cannot install xp on a disc then move the hd to another pc.. it recognizes the massive hardware change.. you need to install xp on your friends pc while the harddrive is in your friends pc.
Sorry if ive got you wrong but it sounds like thats what you did.

Thats exactally what i was thinking.

stevie33

Such an easy solution that it was so difficult to think of, thanks very much for all your help!!

Just one last question, just want to check that after windows is installed on the computer can I place the hard disk into mine as the slave to transfer documents rather than having to put it onto disks or would that disrupt what I've just done??

Again, thanks for everything!:D

irlrobins

That's fine as long as you don't boot off it. If you boot off your own drive and then copy files from your drive to your friend's, then return drive to friend's PC that would work fine.