Blue Screen of death when attempting to reformat

[Akhen]

After a long time running I decided to reformat my hard drive after backing up all my files. So I go to the bios set my boot order for the DVD-ROM first:

Here?s something that might be the cause of the problem. The DVD-ROM is actually set as a raid between my DVD/CDR and DVD-R and counts for my first boot device then my hard drive (WD 200GD Serial ATA). The reason for this might be because my primary IDE controller took a dump so I?m using the secondary on my motherboard.

Anyways it boots up again and goes through all the loading of drivers and whatnot but when it reaches "setup is starting windows" I get a blue screen of death, so I am unable to delete my partition and reformat as I am wanting to. The screen tells me to remove new hard drives or controllers (which I have not) and a few other things like chkdsk.
The error reference is: STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D2524, 0x0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 )

So here I am stuck because I cant reformat, I don?t know if the fact that my optical drives are trying to be a RAID is cause of the problem (I tried unplugging one but to no result ) or something else, but I was wondering if anyone would have an help around this? Or any suggestions?

 

[sieistganzfett]

your optical drives are raid or the same physical IDE cable one as master, one as slave? you have only one hard drive? how did you configure optical drives in a raid array? raid requires 2 or more hard drives and is configured in the bios. ok, so you boot off of the dvd-rom with an xp cd in it, hit a key it starts setup, manages to bsod before getting to the delete partition screen/format? im not exactly sure what your system's specs such as motherboard, cpu, etc. but what you can try since you have already backed up your data to another location, (im hoping to cd, usb drive, or another pc) you can set the options in the bios to the defaults, make sure your hard drive, (you mentioned only hard drive, not hard drives) is connected to a non raid sata, unless your setting up raid, which requires more than one hard drive, and make sure the jumpers on the optical drives is correct, one master and one as slave, its ok you connected to the secondary IDE.

 

[Quinton McLeod]

How can you raid a DVD burner?

Dude, the best way to fix it is to start removing devices like it suggested. Try doing that first before all else.