BSOD when booting from a USB Device

[BeginnerToCode]

Hi All

I am getting th BSOD when I try to boot via USB 2.0 from my Seagate Free Agent Pro 1 TB External HDD.

It gives me this error

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78A6A94,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)

What I did:

I clonned a 500 GB HDD from my friends working system (Inspiron Desktop 530S)

to a External Seagate Free Agent Pro 1 TB HDD.

When I try to boot from the External HDD I get the BSOD with under given error.

STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78A6A94,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)

My system details : Dell Optiplex GX-280

Please help me I don't know how to get it to work.

Thank you

[jaclaz]

All NT based OS are NOT "designed" to be bootable from USB.

The MS guys will also tell you that it is impossible.

The good news are that the above is NOT true, the bad news are that it is not-so-easy to make it possible.

You will have to read these:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181

(look at the tutorials in Dietmar's signature)

http://www.ngine.de/article/id/8

http://www.usboot.org/

http://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.php?page=download

ALL links are about ways to make a NEW install bootable from USB, you'll have to read "between the lines" to hopefully be able to "convert" your already existing install into a bootable one.

jaclaz

P.S.: actually Dietmar's tutorial #3, that was based on cloning from a hard disk install, may contain the info you need.

Edited October 1, 2008 by jaclaz

[DigeratiPrime]

I think its failing to see the MBR, which is either because it is missing (didnt copy) or the interface doesn't see the drive. I would normally suspect disc controller drivers if this was RAID or AHCI.

Do you get this error if you connect the drive directly to the mainboard, either IDE or SATA?

Also try connecting directly to the USB ports on the mainboard and not through headers or hubs.

More info:

http://blogs.technet.com/asksbs/archive/20...0x0000007b.aspx

[jaclaz]

@DigeratiPrime

Not to contradict you , but ANY NT based system on ANY (ATA/ATAPI/IDE/SATA) hd connected through a USB adapter will BSOD with STOP 0x0000007b because of the missing/wrong USB Registry entries (and thus drivers), unless of course it has been properly installed on that USB hd.

jaclaz

Edited October 4, 2008 by jaclaz

[...Tim...]

ALL links are about ways to make a NEW install bootable from USB, you'll have to read "between the lines" to hopefully be able to "convert" your already existing install into a bootable one.

Well, in the end that's not entirely true.

While to avoid potential conflicts with third party software it is strongly recommended to use a fresh install when using USBoot this in no strict requirement. In fact I myself do use it on my productive install with the full BTS driverpack proivided as source for step V of phase II. However the possibility of (unwanted) complex driver interaction grows as the number of factors involved increases.

So for a first try I would certainly give the advice to use a 'virgin' install of NT 5.x but once one has successfully proven that the system in question is capable of booting from USB it may be worth a try to reevaluate things with a full blown installation.

Tim

[jaclaz]

ALL links are about ways to make a NEW install bootable from USB, you'll have to read "between the lines" to hopefully be able to "convert" your already existing install into a bootable one.

Well, in the end that's not entirely true.

While to avoid potential conflicts with third party software it is strongly recommended to use a fresh install when using USBoot this in no strict requirement. In fact I myself do use it on my productive install with the full BTS driverpack proivided as source for step V of phase II. However the possibility of (unwanted) complex driver interaction grows as the number of factors involved increases.

So for a first try I would certainly give the advice to use a 'virgin' install of NT 5.x but once one has successfully proven that the system in question is capable of booting from USB it may be worth a try to reevaluate things with a full blown installation.

Tim

Which is exactly the kind of advice I was trying to give.

jaclaz