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[Borkoff]

Hi everyone!

I have a Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO a1640 with Sempron and have this huge problem that I need help with. The problem is that after Windows setup has booted and loaded all the files/drivers and when "Setup is starting windows" or just before the screen where you can choose which partition to install windows I get a BSOD with 0x07E or sometimes 7B or 7F error.
As my cdrom is broken (replacing it with an new one did not work) I am booting from usb 8GB flash that I created with WinToFlash util (I have tried other utils like WinSetupfromUsb and FlashBoot). The installation is not corrupted and works on other computers (downloaded it straight from MS as a student). there are no unnecessary devices attached to my laptop - no CdRom, no mouse, etc.
I tried to run the run the setup without the hdd in the laptop to determine whether the problem is in the hdd but still the same problem at the same place in the Windows setup.

I even tried to place the hdd in another laptop, install windows there, then put the hdd back to amilo (i know this is not right) run windows in safe mode (because normal mode will give me 0x07B error) then install ALL the drivers with DriverGenius. Then I would integrated all these drivers in Windows installation using nLite and then boot this installation but still the same BSOD. Maybe I should point out that when there is any system on the HDD (like the latter example), the USB won't boot (by pressing F12 and choosing the removable media in the boot sequence). The usb will boot only is there is no hdd or it is formated.

I have tried to make the same hdd bootable with WinToFlash (attached the hdd to another pc via usb), then put back in the AMILO and it did boot,the setup ran it but still the same error.

I have a BIOS 1.04c version and I see that it is the newest version
Fujitsu AMILO 1640 BIOS
and I see no reason for flashing my bios.

BTW I managed to install Ubuntu from a flashdrive but I need to install Windows on this machine.

Also I successfully managed to boot it over lan/network with PXE using tftp32 using this tutorial

http://blog.ryantadams.com/2008/02/01/how-to-boot-from-the-network-pxe-boot-with-tftp-and-windows-pe/

and to load Vista WinPE (preinstallation environment) but it takes me nowhere because the Windows setup just copies the setup files and then when the computer reboots, i get an error message something like "An error occurred reading from disk. Press ctrl+alt+del" although I successfully fixed the few bad sectors on my hdd with the famous HDD Regenerator.

I have tried some many things but still no success!
please help me and advise me something!

[steve6375]

Try resetting to default in the BIOS?

Sounds like your laptop has a fault if it won't boot from a known good CD drive??

Create an XP ISO following this


http://si1520.blogsp...p-on-amilo.html



Then use the ISO on a flash drive following this http://sites.google....-xp-from-an-iso (but you should not need to worry about the txtsetuip.oem bit if you integrated it in your XP ISO.

[Borkoff]

I forgot to mention that i do not have SATA drive - I have IDE/ATAPI hdd.
I have use the optional settings in bios (there is no option for fail-safe settings)
Also I have checked RAM with memtest86+. Also I tried to swap the modules and remove one and leave the other one in sequence.

Edited by Borkoff, 31 March 2011 - 08:13 AM.

[Sha0]

As my cdrom is broken (replacing it with an new one did not work) I am booting from usb 8GB flash that I created with WinToFlash util (I have tried other utils like WinSetupfromUsb and FlashBoot).

Do those programs' vendors offer technical support? I do not believe that Windows 2000/XP/2003 supports booting its installation environment from a USB HDD. If these programs are expected to "make it work" and they don't, I'd complain to the vendors.

It seems highly unusual that the state of the internal HDD should affect your BIOS' offer to boot from USB. Perhaps you could boot the USB with the Plop boot-manager. It also seems unusual that you should care about the state of the internal HDD if you are about to wipe it and install Windows to it.

There is also the possibility of reading and adapting sara - pmedia's instructions for how she used GRUB4DOS and a Windows installation .ISO and WinVBlock in order to install Windows without an optical disc drive.

[Borkoff]

Sounds like your laptop has a fault if it won't boot from a known good CD drive??

yea it really sounds like:D

Create an XP ISO following this


http://si1520.blogsp...p-on-amilo.html



Then use the ISO on a flash drive following this http://sites.google....-xp-from-an-iso (but you should not need to worry about the txtsetuip.oem bit if you integrated it in your XP ISO.

This did not work for me - still got the error at the same place.
Though I could not use the step 2 - to load the iso in the RAM.
I got an error
"autodetect number-of-heads failed. use default value 2
autodetect sectors-per-track failed. use default value 18"

and I am not sure If I have 768 mb of ram or 512 because I can access only two modules that are under the laptop. maybe there is one more module under the keyboard?

[steve6375]

It sounds like grub4dos thinks the drive is a floppy drive! When you get to the grub4dos menu can you type

c

map (

and then hit the TAB key

and see what is listed - it should be something like 'possible disks are hd0 hd1 rd' ???

[Borkoff]

It sounds like grub4dos thinks the drive is a floppy drive! When you get to the grub4dos menu can you type

c

map (

and then hit the TAB key

and see what is listed - it should be something like 'possible disks are hd0 hd1 rd' ???

did it and yes it is exactly like: 'possible disks are hd0 hd1 rd'. is it ok?

[steve6375]

looks OK, what is your menu.lst?

[Borkoff]

looks OK, what is your menu.lst?

I have now formatted the USBflash to try to reflash the BIOS but I created the menu.lst as the tutorial required with the provided content. the content of menu.lst could change because of the boot events?

[Borkoff]

reflashing BIOS did not work. the same error.
Do I really have to switch to Linux? Oh God, please help me!

btw
the full error
0x0000007B (0xFA2F7524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)

[ilko]

Have you tried the modified ntdetect.com ?
http://www.msfn.org/...009#entry738009

If used WinToFlash last don't redo the USB stick, just replace original with the resulting file in both ~BT and ~LS\I386 directories.

[Borkoff]

Have you tried the modified ntdetect.com ?
http://www.msfn.org/...009#entry738009

If used WinToFlash last don't redo the USB stick, just replace original with the resulting file in both ~BT and ~LS\I386 directories.

I see that this has helped a lot of people. I will give it a try today after work. Thanks for advice.