Please help, Windows XP BSOD!

[Arik5405]

So I had this computer that we had to replace at my dad's business. before sending it away I made some images using Ghost. I reimaged a blank drive and put it in a new computer (which has completely different hardware). The computer won't boot into Windows and gave me this error message: STOP: 0X0000007B (0xBACC3524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). I can boot into safe mode though. I tried booting to my XP cd to do a repair install but the option never showed up. The only thing I can do is use recovery console or install a fresh copy of Windows on the partition, it doesn't give me the option to repair it. I also logged into safe mode and tried deleting the HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum entries from the registry but it wouldn't allow it even though I had full access. It is very important that I get this up and running normally so any and all help will be greatly appreciated!

I am at work right now so I haven't been able to try some other things but here's somethings I am going to try tonight:
- Change SATA mode in BIOS to Legacy or ATA mode
- Change AHCI to IDE
- run sfc /scannow with my XP CD in the drive.
- run chkdsk from recovery console
- disable RAID in BIOS (I am only using one hard drive so not sure if it is enabled)
- disable onboard NIC
- run microsoft's registry recovery found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/
- find an HP OEM XP PRO SP3 CD to repair install.

So the new computer has a new hard drive which has this image ghosted to it that has all of the programs, settings, data, and drivers from the old computer. I believe it is the drivers which are preventing Windows from booting up normally.

Can anyone offer any other suggestions for what I might try to get this working normally? Thanks a lot!

 

[bruceb]

Presuming the new computer has different hardware than the one you made the ghost image from.
That is why it will only boot into safe mode. You need to remove the drivers in device management
and let XP reinstall them. You will also need the motherboard chipset drivers as they will also not be the same.
You can use any copy of XP to do a repair install as long as it is the same type.
XP Home OEM or Retail ... or XP Pro OEM or Retail, as appropriate. Some OEM cds, like from Dell, may not
offer the windows repair option. Note that the cd you use MUST have the same level of Service Pack
already on it, as whatever level service pack the OS on the pc is at or windows will not install or do a repair.

 

[Arik5405]

ok that makes some sense. The old computer was an HP with XP Pro and I believe SP3. The new computer is one that I built and with a different hard drive I installed Vista and XP to test out all of the hardware, so everything is good there. I have an XP Pro SP2 and SP3 retail cd that won't allow me to do a repair. So I probably would have to find an OEM HP XP Pro SP3 cd somewhere to do the repair?

 

[Blunc]

the HP oem copy of winxp on the ghosted drive is legally "tied" to the hp mobo you sent away, most system makers put hardware checkers into their software that checks to make sure the OS is running on HP hardware. the drive should work fine if you're gonna put it back into the same model of HP computer but you're gonna have problems if you want it to run on anything but an HP.

best option would be to install winxp over the hp version of winxp already on the disk.