Stop 7B on new hardware, w/ new retail copy of XP Pro

[dnquark]

Hi all,

I've been trying to install XP on a Fujitsu t2010 tablet. Originally, it came with a restore disk that wipes the drive as it restores the OS.

I have a new retail copy of Windows, but after it loads drivers and goes to "Setup is starting Windows", a Stop 7B error pops up.

I tried to boot off of an XP disk from an old desktop, and it worked fine, but couldn't see the SATA drive.

Then, I tried booting off of a pirated XP disk I downloaded that was supposed to have all the latest drivers, and it installed just fine! But I can't update it, install WMP 11, etc. since it's a pirate copy.

My goal now is to figure out how to combine the working parts of the pirate disk with the legit disks to get a legit installation going. So far, I tried installing the recovery disk on a spare hard drive and copy the c:\windows\i386\ directory over the \i386\ of the pirate disk. No dice, Stop 7B again. I'm at a loss. Clearly I seem to have all the components needed to make this work, but I can't figure out how to. Please help.

[dnquark]

...here's more: I took the recovery CD and had the recovery utility copy the install files to disk. When the system rebooted to continue the setup from disk, I turned it off, took out the drive, and hooked it up to another computer. Sure enough, there are all the XP install files, with directories like $WIN_NT$.~LS, CMPNENTS, I386, etc.

I then tried making a bootable flash drive by using the USB_MultiBoot5 utility from this forum... Guess what? Stop 7B again. Aargh!

EDIT: SOLVED

I took the XP install files and followed directions on http://kylefarnung.com/index.php/2007/02/2...a_custom_oem_wi to produce a bootable DVD with nlite. The only change from the directions above is that the mass storage driver is

[MassStorageDrivers]

"Intel® 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M)"="OEM"

(This info, along with the product key, is contained in the unattended.txt file)

Edited March 10, 2008 by dnquark

[cluberti]

If you have the SATA drivers for your system, look in the nlite forums (or the other unattended forums) for how to integrate them. The 7B is telling you it can't find the bootable Windows disk, and bugchecks. If you had the drivers for the controller integrated, it should work.

Make sure you delete that pirated copy if you haven't already, though. You know how we feel about pirated software here.

[Mordac85]

I bet the problem is that XP has no support for AHCI by default, and the pirated copy probably had it added in. Try checking in the BIOS to see if you can switch to ATA mode or use F6 to provide the sata drivers when you start. I just had a similar issue with the Dell Optiplex 755 ICH9 controller.