STOP 0x0000007b Error

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My computer is acting up, and it's really annoying me. Here's the short version:

I had a working install of XP SP2, but System Restore was not working. I figured a repair install couldn't hurt, so I used a MSDN SP2 XP CD to do a repair install. After I did this, the system would, instead of starting up, throw a BSOD with an 0x7b error (apparently INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE) before it gets to graphical startup. Now, it goes to graphical startup for a split second before giving the same error. I did not make any hardware changes or install or remove any programs before this behavior started.

Here's the long version of things I tried:
Repairing, using a burned XP SP2 CD from MSDN, repeatedly and at various times
Repairing, using a factory-made XP SP1 CD from MSDN, repeatedly and at various times
Converted partition from NTFS to FAT32 using PartitionMagic
Copied hard drive to new store-bought hard drive
(Subsequent steps all take place on new drive)
Restored registry from old backup (caused it to go briefly to graphical startup before throwing same BSOD)
Parallel XP install to different folder - worked fine
Copied registry from new, clean XP install to old install - worked, but booted to clean install
Converted drive back to NTFS
Wiped drive (zeroed out from Linux LiveCD)
Copied files from backups from about a month ago (about everything except the registry, which was from last July), and copied other files other than the windows directory from old hard drive

None of this has helped. I still get the error. I have yet to try going back to pure backups, but since I didn't restore files from the windows directory I don't see how that could make a difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be causing this error, or how I can fix it?

Thanks.

David
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