Re: inaccessible boot device

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From: Jetro (want_at_some.spam.heh)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:16:37 -0500

These articles could help:

How to troubleshoot "Stop 0x0000007B" error messages in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822052#6g; You
Receive a Stop 0x0000007B Error After You Move the Windows XP System Disk to
Another Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314082

NT/2k/Xp/2k3 system, unlike 9x, cannot replace the chipset drivers
on-the-fly because it doesn't have direct access to the hardware; that's why
that Stop error occurs if the chipsets are different and there is no
appropriate registry keys and the drivers preinstalled. The same Stop could
appear also if the BIOSes are different, i.e. ACPI-awared and non-ACPI, and
this is the HAL compatibility issue (ACPI - Standard). Modern BIOSes are
pretty good ACPI-awared so this case is more rare and obsolete.

XP and W2k3 are very tightly bound at setup time to the hardware set of CPU,
chipset, HDD and video adapter, and you cannot replace that set at once
during upgrade w/o re-activation Windows. Moreover, IIRC, the activation
permits you changing every main hardware component no more than 3 times w/o
re-activation. But all that is an activation issue only.

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