Win7 recovery error after installing new mobo, cpu and ram.

gizmo1990 · 4 Apr 2011 at 21:51

I had a system failure recently, motherboard conked out, so I'm having to rebuild. I ended up getting a new motherboard, cpu and ram. My old system ran a intel 90gb ssd for the os and a 1tb hhd for other stuff. The os is win7 64bit.

I've connected everything up except for the hhd so it's just the ssd. Upon boot I'm getting a windows recovery error. I've tried letting windows repair it with no joy and done some system restores which also failed.

Basically everytime I try to boot into windows normally I get the spinning coloured dots but then it blue screens very quickly and resets. :confused:

Can anyone suggest to me anything which I should be doing here? Anything I've missed? I really would like to not have to reinstall w7 and then all my other software. I also have some files on the ssd I'd like to get back. Could I pop the ssd in another system and accress them as another drive?

Any help really appreciated.

Tonester007 · 4 Apr 2011 at 22:06

gizmo1990 said:
Basically everytime I try to boot into windows normally I get the spinning coloured dots but then it blue screens very quickly and resets.

Press F8 after the BIOS has finished, to get to the Windows "Advanced Boot options".
Turn off "Automatic Restart" and then the next time it BSODs, you can read the error message.

Post back with the error message and we'll take it from there.

Cheers

gizmo1990 · 4 Apr 2011 at 23:20

Thanks for the reply Tonester007.

Right the bsod says,

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed 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 (0xFFFFF880009A98E8, 0xFFFFFFFFC0000034, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000)

:confused:

Could any of this have anything to do with me not connecting up the sata hdd?

bledd · 5 Apr 2011 at 03:43

New motherboard = re install Windows

lokkers · 5 Apr 2011 at 07:34

bledd. said:
New motherboard = re install Windows

+1.

You can of course attach the SSD to another machine to access your files, if you've got things on there that you absolutely must not lose. Just make sure the other machine isn't set to boot from it, otherwise confusion will reign!

Alternatively, get yourself an external HDD caddy and stick it in there.

bledd · 5 Apr 2011 at 08:36

Or you can download linux mint, burn that to cd and boot from it.

It has a live testing mode where you'll be able to copy your files without installing it..