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Help! I recently changed out my old 40GB 4200 RPM Hitachi HDD for a new Seagate 100GB 7200 RPM Momentus Drive. After physically changing out the drives and partitioning and formatting the new drive, I used Norton Ghost 10 to restore my C & D drives onto the new drive. Everything works fine. The PC is a Sony Vaio PCG-GRT170 running WinXP SP2 w/latest fixes. I placed the old HDD into an external enclosure without doing anything to it. In other words, it is still my "original C (&D) drive". When I hook it up to the Vaio via USB and power it up, I get a blue screen of death. My PC reboots before I can read what caused the BSOD. When I unplug the old drive, everything works again. I'm guessing I need to stop the drive from appearing as another C drive and confusing the PC, however I'm cluless as to how to do that, since I cannot power it up to even try. My goal is to try to view some of the contents (the OEM partition) of the old drive. I want to back that up to DVDs and then format the old drive into a 40 GB external drive for the kids to store pictures on. Any ideas or articles would be deeply appreciated. Thanks.

Welcome to PCHF np149!

Can you follow this link and then post up your bsod for us please.

http://www.pchelpforum.com/windows-x...bsod-here.html

upgrader 764,

Thanks for the welcome! Here is what the 1001 file reads:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000007e (0xc0000005, 0xf75c6abb, 0xf7b378c4, 0xf7b375c0). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini012107-01.dmp.

When I go to the Minidump folder, it is empty. I'm guessing one of my cleaner utilities might have removed it.

First, delete that event.

Next, reconnect your Hard Drive to reproduce the error (make sure you prevent any cleaner utilities from booting to get rid of it) and then get the new dump.

Rodents 210:
I recreated the dump and (hopefully) uploaded the dump file with this message. Let's see what happens...

Thanks. np149.