There are 2 different Boot CDâs that can do this for you, Hirenâs Boot CD (v10.2 and newer) and Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows (UBCD4Win). The Hiren method is easier because it doesnât require any software to be installed on your system or a Windows XP install CD. Here are the instructions for both, you obviously need access to a working system for this to work.
After Moving the Hard Drive or the Motherboard Change
Using Hirenâs Boot CD
New Gandalf WinPE, XP SP3 install ISO and Dreams Boot CD 2015. Select the second option down, âMini Windows XPâ from the menu and load Mini XP. Once loaded, click on the Hiren menu icon in the system tray and go to Registry -> âFix hard disk controller (fix_hdc.cmd)â. Press the T key, then enter and type in the TargetRoot folder. Windows XP PRO SP3 VistaVG Black Blue Ultimate Style LeoO Globe 3:30 PM OPERATING SYSTEMS, 10 Comments Windows XP Pro SP3 VistaVG Black Blue Ultimate Style - NO CD-KEY needed.already slipstreamed. The art of creating Windows XP live CD. I was wondering can i change a step from burning to CD to making a CD ISO Image? Or does it need to be burnt to a CD? Saranray says. April 18, 2009 at 7:01 pm. I need live xp. February 28, 2009 at 1:35 pm. Wow nice but i use rxd?
1. Download Hirenâs Boot CD and burn the ISO to a CD if you donât have it already. Alternatively write Hiren to a bootable USB flash drive.
2. Boot up the computer with Hiren. You need to go into the BIOS to change the boot sequence if your computer canât boot up the computer with a CD, or press a hotkey such as F11 to reach the boot device selection dialog.
3. Select the second option down, âMini Windows XPâ from the menu and load Mini XP.
4. Once loaded, click on the Hiren menu icon in the system tray and go to Registry -> âFix hard disk controller (fix_hdc.cmd)â.
5. Press the T key, then enter and type in the TargetRoot folder. The default would be C:Windows but might be different on multiboot systems, in which case you would need to check in Windows Explorer what the correct drive letter is.
6. Hit the M key on your keyboard to select Update MassStorage drivers and press enter.
7. When itâs finished, press any key to continue and restart the computer.
Using UBCD4Win
1. Download latest UBCD4Win and install.
2. Launch UBCD4Win from the Desktop or Start Menu.
3. Insert an original Windows XP CD into the CD/DVD drive and select the source. To confirm that the source is correct, click on Source from the menu bar and select Check.
4. If your computer can burn CDâs, select Burn to CD/DVD and click the Build button. If it canât, select Create ISO image and once it has completed creating the ISO image, copy it to a computer that can burn CDâs and burn it.
5. Boot up the computer with UBCD4Win. You need to go BIOS to change the boot sequence if your computer canât boot up the computer with a CD.
6. Select Launch âThe Ultimate Boot CD for Windowsâ from the UBCD4Win menu and wait for it to load. You can select No when asked to start network support.
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7. Click Start -> Programs -> Registry Tools -> Fix_hdc -> Fix hard disk controller.
8. Hit the M key on your keyboard to select Update MassStorage drivers.
9. When itâs finished, press any key to continue and restart the computer.
Good luck and hopefully that you are now able to move Windows XP hard drive to another computer with either of the methods above.
These days there is another way to achieve a similar result which is through backup software such Acronis TrueImage and EaseUs Todo Backup. These programs are able to restore backups to dissimilar hardware meaning you can move an image from one computer to a system with a completely different set of hardware. The hard drive controller is automatically switched to the Microsoft default driver during the transfer, so the computer should boot straight up without the need for a third party boot CD.
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Steve6 hours ago
My M-925 MB failed completely. I am now using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. And my old XP HD will not boot, after I disable the SATA drive and enable the IDE HD with XP. I have a duel HD on my computer. I can boot from either the first HD with Ubuntu or the other with XP. I was not able to make the changes before the old MB failure. Now, can I use Hirenâs Boot Disk, and use the Mini XP and then go into my XP HD and then make changes to allow it to boot on my new MB? It is the only âback doorâ method that might work. But I would need some advice before I attempt it.
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Itâs been such a long time Iâve had to deal with anything like this, but yes, I think you should be able to do what you are suggesting.
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Steve Jobs4 months ago
OUTSTANDING !!!!!!! Been a tech for 35 years and this way is flawless. Genius my man GENIUS
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Works flawlessly, just make sure you use plain Hiren not ârebuildâ version which has other registry edit tools (which are less straightforward to use)
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Roma2 years ago
Good solution. Iâve tried it to move disk from BL460c Gen8 to BL460c Gen9 It worked fine. Just replaced Smart Array 220i with Smart Array Controller (Media Driver), powered off server and took the disk to Gen9. Windows is up!!! Reply
Thanks again
Worked well, without a hitch. After changing the specs in the device manager, moved the hard disk drive with windows xp to a new pc. Made it the boot drive, went very smooth.
Re activated windows via phone, since the web activation no longer exists.
Thanks for the great advice.
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mike2 years ago
Works good, only thing is i cant get windows xp to activate on the new machine it shows the box in the corner saying windows is not activated and when i click activate windows it says this page cannot be displayed, its like the activation web page inst around anymore.
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You know man? you know? Reply
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Mike_O3 years ago
Wow works on windows 7 too. Spent hours fiddling with sysprep and regedit etc.
Good work mate :)
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I used Hirenâs Boot CD method for a 64 bit Win XP when I changed the motherboard but it didnât work when the PC rebooted and the BSOD appeared. Reply
Rather than copying an Intel x64 iastor.sys driver to C:Windows, it had copied a iastor7.sys x86 driver when Fix-hdc.cmd was run. My work-around was by renaming the iastor.sys to iastor7.sys and replacing the iastor.sys in the i386 folder so when I re-ran the fix_hdc.cmd it copied the correct file. Restarted PC and worked.
Mehdi.h3 years ago
thank you so much.it worked for me.
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Just brilliant, it worked beautifully. Reply
XP forever.
Roger Macqueen3 years ago
Thanks for the article. I was able to use Hirenâs CD to fix a BSOD. In the past, Iâve been able to fix such BSODs by booting from the XP media and doing a repair install. But, in this case, I was still getting a BSOD when booting from CD. In any case, using Hirenâs CD is much quicker and easier.
Thanks again.
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Thank you for sharing.
I downloaded, burned, ran Mini Win XP of the latest version (15.2) of Hirenâs Boot CD. When Mini XP loads I donât see any icon in the system tray, there is only the clock. Not even in the Start menu there is no Hirenâs Menu icon. Am I missing something here?
Thanks in advance.
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HAL9000 Admin3 years ago
For some strange reason the HBCD menu doesnât appear on every computer, it should have an icon on the desktop, in the Start Menu at the top and also in the Programs menu.
If you still canât find it open Windows Explorer, go to the HBCD 15.2 drive > HBCD > run HBCDMenu.exe.
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the HBCD menu wonât appear if your original OS on the hard drive is a 64bit OS.
someone said here that âHirens Mini Windows XP is a 32-bit XP that cannot deal with drives configured by 64-bit Windows versionsâ computerforum.com/threads/hbcd-menu-missing.233870/
Iâll try this on a system that has a hard drive with 32bit/x86 Win7 on there.
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HAL9000 Admin3 years ago
I donât believe that is the case as Iâve personally run Hiren on dozens of 64-bit systems and it worked just fine. I believe the issue has more to do with the system hardware such as motherboard and chipset and the now quite old drivers that are installed in Mini XP.
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Thank You so much for your help. After 26 years in IT, your suggestions here have helped me immensely and put an end to my misery , I am over joyed by your blog here. Keep up the good work. Thank You, your the ONE. All my best wishes to you. I will remember this for the rest of my life.
Dobri4 years ago
Amazing!!! So simple and it saved me so much time and great pain⦠Reply
A million thanks from Bulgaria!
You are a genius!! Reply
Had to migrate my system onto a new machine but no access to vital applications for reinstallation. Installing that driver onto my cloned disk did the trick!! Youâve saves me a fortune! Thanks again. David
David4 years ago
Oh man you saved my week with the Hirens trick, thanks!
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Dell Dimension 4500
My âIDE ATA/ATAPI controllersâ list doesnât have any mfr-specific controllers: just â Primary IDE Channel â Secondary IDE Channel â Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller.
Does this mean Iâm already OK? If not, is there anything I can/should do?
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HAL9000 Admin4 years ago
Yes, you should be OK although it wouldnât hurt to do it manually yourself just to make sure everything is set to defaults.
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Thanksâ¦
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donb4 years ago
I had a HP compaq dc-7900 small form original OS was Vista, Current OS win7 and I did this and slapped a XP hard drive into it and Wham it worked when it previously had a 7b stop error. Thanks! but now its asking for a product keyâ¦
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Use your old product key, it should work still.
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Amk4 years ago
Thanks A lot!!!
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Vishal: I could prevent keyboard and mouse from freezing at Windows startup by disabling USB, on-board audio & LAN in the BIOS.
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Dyn5 years ago
Thanks! It works great! I moved the HDD from my suddenly not working laptop to another working one, All ok! You saved me a lot of time.
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Thanks man, this saved me a reinstall!
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HarleyD5 years ago
Thank u so much. Worked like a charm. I did have it keep asking me to update base system something or other which I didnât since I am no longer updating XP. So long as it works, I wonât.
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I had to virtualize a dead Windows XP Pc (blown caps on the motherboard) with vmware.
I used the HirenBootCD solution. Reply
Adelandeyo!
vishal thawani5 years ago
I have copied the hard disk and hiren worked great but I canât go ahead after windows loads keyboard and mouse get frozen please suggest something
Thanks
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WORKS PERFECTLY.
solved my problem with which I struggled for 2 years in the transfer system.
THANKS BRO
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Dweller5 years ago
Itâs event worked on Win7, thank you.
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Nice infoâ¦.
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JadeMasters5 years ago
man, i would kneel in front of you right now. you saved my ass right there, thank you man. hiren worked like a charm
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Great, I replaced MB, works perfectly.
Thanx man.
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Mauricio Davila J.5 years ago
Thank you, Excellent post.
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It worked for me.old industrial PC is replaced by a new i7 generation, upgraded even OS. Reply
Thank you from Sweden
Angel5 years ago
Hi. Thank you by the post. i was looking how to move the hard disk with win xp without loss data. But now have a problem. ; survived to the eternal loop but mouse and keyboard are frozen and I cant go ahead.
Any idea how to solve this?
Thanks you very much
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Thank you very muchâ¦
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CaptainK5 years ago
Thanks. It works. I been doing absolutely every trick in the world, for weeks, to get my XP, Vista, W7 and W8 onto a new (different) computer, w/o joy. Then this worked a charm. Worked on XP, Vista, and W7 and go me into each. All it took was to use Paragon 12 (any PM will probably do) to COPY each of these partitions to a new HD and put into the new platform. W8 required the install CD to repair, and once in W8, used EasyBCD to get it multibooting. Then used the Hiren method above to fix the HD drivers and PRESTO!
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It brought a tear to my eye when it worked. Seriously the Hirenâs BootCD worked awesome. I did have to change the bios settings from AHCI to IDE because miniXP didnt recognize the harddrive with AHCI but as soon as I did that miniXP had no problem with the rest of the guide. This allowed me to get into my Vista OS enough to download the new drivers needed.
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Mohamed Abdel-Mongy5 years ago
It is Great thing Reply
it works excellent only thing bothering that the key board and mouse does not work until a got into safe mode thanks very much
Iâve done it with Hirenâs, grateful surprise! Reply
Thanks for sharing knowledge!
Ron6 years ago
Works great
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henry6 years ago
Hi guys. I just have done opposite, based on your article. Your article is talking about moving from Intel into AMD platform.
I have to do opposite. I didnât care that much so I have done some shortcuts! :D
Renamed AMD drivers instead of Intel!
Removed IDE drivers without installing basic ones. AMD was not in Registry. So done nothing.
Moved HDD to Intel mobo â all sweet â just XP asked me to activate again in 3 days done with success as well.
Didnât use Hiren disk at all!
Just removed hdd drivers and renamed AMD drivers in c:Windows/system32/drivers
Thatâs all folks! Many thanks for all info. That helped me enormously.
Kind regardsâ¦
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Oh SWEETNESS youâve saved me so much trouble I canât begin to tell you except that a few days ago I found a bulging capacitor [!] on my motherboard and had to migrate right away. However I ran into that loop problem. :/
Iâm typing this on my new computer and just had to stop by before I go hunt down the drivers I need to use this system. SO happy!
Thank you. Thank you -very- much. Reply
Cheers Everyone!
Ashkan6 years ago
You are Awesome. This article is amazing and helped me alot. Reply
Thank you and God Bless you
Thanks for this great tutorial!!
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HAL9000 Admin6 years ago
@ pd: I think the issue is the driver XP needs to boot from SATA probably isnât one of those WHQL drivers which are plug-and-play. It will need this one:
NVIDIA C51 SATA RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)
This would be the same driver you install from floppy using F6 while installing XP and is a textmode driver, not plug-and-play. Textmode drivers have to be either installed manually or on install with F6. This driver uses nvraid.sys and not nvgts.sys as the driver file.
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Iâve had a Windows XP SP3 installation running on a Athlon 64 3000+ era system for a long time. With Seagate SSHD drives dropping to $99 for 500GB, I thought Iâd move that install from a mechanical drive to the SSHD. Despite the install being less than pristine in state, using this method of switching the hard drive controllerâs driver, then Parted Magicâs clone tool, I successfully migrated the install! Thanks for this help. It is astonishing, and also a credit to you, that this simple technique is only available on your blog.
However, can you top this by suggesting why, after getting the install to boot fine, I canât then go and update the HDC drivers back to the appropriate nVidia nForce 430 drivers as supplied by the motherboardâs website, without a repeat of the STOP 7B BSOD? I was under the (perhaps misguided) impression that the HDC only needed to be downgraded to the old generic Windows driver in order to get the system running again. Then the proper drivers could be re-installed. Would absolutely love your advice on this topic. Iâm now seemingly stuck running a SATA3 SSHD in UDMA6 (133 MB/s) mode. I know my old motherboard canât run the SSHD in itâs optimal SATA3 (600 MB/s) mode but I have it plugged into a SATA2 port so Iâd hope SATA2 speeds of 300MB/s would be (theoretically) attainable.
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HAL9000 Admin6 years ago
The problem with trying to install drivers AFTER having XP in IDE mode is when you install the motherboard/chipset drivers while in IDE mode, the setup doesnât see the SATA/RAID controller and so doesnât install drivers for SATA. In other words, youâre still getting a BSOD because XP still doesnât have any SATA drivers on there!
What you have to do is insert the SATA driver manually so Windows will see it on boot, itâs not exactly easy, but not too difficult either. Have a look at the following nVidia community page for a guide on what to do.
forums.geforce.com/default/topic/419127/switching-to-ahci-nvidia-nforce-drivers/
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Unfortunately I donât have an AHCI capable motherboard. I think thatâs a big part of the problem.
It seems the key to this solution is to throw the drivers in at boot. This doesnât make a whole lot of sense to me because I donât know why the following should not work:
1) Downgrade hard drive controller (HDC) drivers to XPâs âStandard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllerâ
2) Copy the install to another drive 3) Boot the system on the new drive 4) Install the chipset manufacturerâs HDC drivers (in my case âNVIDA nForce 430/410 Serial ATA Controllerâ) 5) Shutdown and reboot
At this point, XP has SATA drivers, the BIOS tells XP that a SATA controller is installed, so why would this produce a 7B BSOD?
Perhaps if Iâm not moving the install from a SATA mechanical drive to an hybrid SSHD drive, there would not be a problem?
Perhaps if this old motherboard supported AHCI the SSHD would use AHCI and there would not be a problem?
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HAL9000 Admin6 years ago
The problem is you cannot install the SATA drivers using the nVidia installer because you need to have SATA enabled in the BIOS first to do it or no drivers will be installed. But you canât enable SATA in the BIOS because it will BSOD on boot.
I had this problem a while back with Intel SATA drivers and the only way it worked was to manually insert the drivers. Itâs a pain but there appears to be no other way apart from possibly doing a repair install and supplying a floppy at the F6 stage, although Iâve never tried that.
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The issue isnât your hybrid drive or lack of AHCI, but simply the driver needs installing by you because Windows XP canât do it.
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Hi. Thanks for the ongoing discussion. Iâm not trying to ask for specific help here so if you donât want to supply that, I understand. Iâm just fascinated by this issue. Just to get this really straight in my head â¦
1) My existing XP install is running on a single-partitioned standard SATA HDD. The Device Manager (View Devices by connection) displays this tree (Iâve removed the less relevant entries)
ACPI Uniprocessor PC
| +â Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System | +â PCI Bus | +â NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller | +â ST3300062 2AS SCSI Disk Device | +â Generic volume
Hereâs the board: gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1939#sp
I donât have any single other ATA/IDE device installed, not even an optical drive.
2) I have run the driver installer downloaded from the GigaByte page above. AFAIK itâs largely just a re-bundled nVidia driver distribution. The README.txt includes the following XP references:
This XP nForce (C51/MCP51) driver package consists of the following components:
Ethernet Driver MCP51 (v50.23) âWHQLâ
Network Management Tools MCP51 (v50.23) SMBus Driver (v4.52) âWHQLâ Installer (v4.93) WinXP IDE SataRAID Driver (v6.66) âWHQLâ WinXP IDE SataIDE Driver (v6.66) âWHQLâ WinXP RAIDTOOL Application (v6.63)
3) Right-clicking on âNVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controllerâ and choosing the Driver tab in the Driver Details I see nothing but nvgts.sys and a series of nv*.dll files.
Points 2 and 3 suggest to me that I think have installed the drivers when the BIOS is in SATA mode before I clone so if I boot the clone from the SSHD (or any other HDD for that matter), am I still likely to get a 7B BSOD? If so, why?
tekHedd7 years ago
Thanks!
I upgraded my motherboard/CPU and simply couldnât fool Windows into booting without the wrong AHCI drivers. (Too late to go back to the old motherboard now and uninstall them!) This advice (Hirenâs boot cd method) got me into safe mode, where I can now update the motherboard drivers and (cross fingers) get into full proper windows again. Awesome!
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Thank you. You have no idea how much time you saved me today.
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Mark9 years ago
Up until now, any method I knew of involved a Windows XP CD and was also quite time consuming. I imaged my hard drive with Macrium Reflect before moving it from an HP Pavillion to a Compaq Presario. I tried Solution a): OMG â Pure Genius!!! You are a true scholar in your profession. Thank you so much!
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Excellent article, saved me rebuilding a machine i have had for four years.
Upgraded from an K7Neo to an K8N Neo 939 motherboard had the BSOD 7b boot device error, used option B here and it worked a charm!
Thank you so much!
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Lardboy McStott9 years ago
Thank you, thank you, thank youâ¦â¦
Although itâs a bit of a mess around to do it, you have no idea how much time this will save me.
I bow down to your superior knowledge and may you get all the good Karma you deserve in one lump sum (maybe the lottery) :)
Again, thank you :)
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Dead motherboard⦠Replaced >booted >UBCD4win > followed directionsâ¦Had to go in safe mode a couple of boots :>found and installed other drivers automaticallyâ¦running good
Tim9 years ago
I canât believe I actually found an answer to this problem. A virus took out some system files, so I did a in-place upgrade of Windows with a custom made XP disk with NLite to include the SATA drivers that Iâd need. Unfortunately, the in-place upgrade fails to deploy those drivers, even though it uses them to detect the HDD during Setup. Iâve been searching for two days on how to install SATA drivers on an unbootable WinXP installation, and finally found your posting. Thank you very much.
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Great post. I have a great deal to thank you for the timesaving fix,. Because it was so effective with most machines i had to move hard drives, i now have a Hirens Boot CD on a usb drive. The latest version has a mini-xp boot o.s. that I use to run that registry cure. Again thanks a million
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Josh9 years ago
Thank you so much for posting this. I never knew about the UBCD4Win and the incredible âFix-HDCâ which performs the âMergeIDE.regâ automated!! I had an untimely and sudden death of a VIA chipset motherboard and had to switch WinXP over to a nVidia nForce2 motherboard, which obviously has a completely different IDE controller etc. Resulting in the infamous STOP 0x7B BSOD.
UBCD4Win (while not as simple as downloading an ISO and burning it) took about an hour to build & burn (by default it builds a >700MB ISO that wonât fit on a standard 650MB CD-R???).
But in the end it did the trick and itâs thanks to this blog for pointing me towards the solution!!
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Awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. This was after trying five different methods that fail.
Thanks, you saved me a lot of re-build time.
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geePRIest9 years ago
i MUST say thanks againâ¦i really appreciate the tip hereâ¦its people like you that make the internet worth whileâ¦.ALL HAIL THIS GUY!!!!
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THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS INFO HEREâ¦.MAGA LIFE SAVERâ¦THANKS AGAIN!!!
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Dads3510 years ago
Good post simplest Iâve seen yet. Thanks for the post.
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great! you saved me from buying another copy of xp! everything got well, just reinstalled drivers from new mobo cd and video card! Reply
really thanks a lot! ;)
uhoh10 years ago
thanks to ray for this method i always wondered what the problem was with that this will save a lot of cloning and formatting i run into this problem
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Worked nicely, thanks.
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mrx11 years ago
thanks for the post it worked great and saved me a butt load of time
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Raymond thanks! this is so nice and Great!
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Ray11 years ago
Beautiful article Ray!! BEAUTIFUL!! Thanks a million!!
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Thanks
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Jan-Bert11 years ago
The above method is also a good way to repair a crashed windows installation. If it is a software problem you can use this method on the same hardware. But be sure you have the right CD and Product key.
With a hardware problem, for example some bad blocks, try to get a copy onto a new HDD and then repair using the install method.
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Thanks Raymond
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Starboykb11 years ago
That was a great tips.
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