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OS Install troubles
Vater5B
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Over the holiday break, I was talking to my father-in-law about technology and what have you and he mentioned a PC he had that is acting funny he wanted me to look at. I told him that I was no tech wizard, but that I would give it a shot. Supposedly he had several viruses on his computer from unsafe surfing... 
So I figured I would just DBAN the HDD, throw a copy of XP on there and use his old serial number. I DBAN the drive, no errors or anything. I put in the XP disk in, and everything goes well until I get to the BSoD.
So I figure, that's odd. I Google this problem and everyone says to slipstream a disk with SATA drivers on it... Well this is an IDE drive... I decide to check the BIOS to make sure the drive is recognized, sure enough it is.
"Whatever, I don't care enough." I say to myself. I decide to install Ubuntu instead. The disk works great for a little while, I see the loading screen, and then it dumps me to BusyBox.
I have no idea what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
So I figured I would just DBAN the HDD, throw a copy of XP on there and use his old serial number. I DBAN the drive, no errors or anything. I put in the XP disk in, and everything goes well until I get to the BSoD.stupid windows install wrote:A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If it is the first time you have seen this stop error screen, restart your computer and take these steps:
Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption and then restart your computer.
Technical Information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007b (parameter 1, parameter 2, parameter 3, parameter 4)
So I figure, that's odd. I Google this problem and everyone says to slipstream a disk with SATA drivers on it... Well this is an IDE drive... I decide to check the BIOS to make sure the drive is recognized, sure enough it is.
"Whatever, I don't care enough." I say to myself. I decide to install Ubuntu instead. The disk works great for a little while, I see the loading screen, and then it dumps me to BusyBox.
I have no idea what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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