Hi,

Hoping someone may be able to help me with this.

I bought the Vista Ultimate Upgrade from ebay and received it today,
but i'm having trouble upgrading my XP Pro machine.

I go through the install process and there are no conflicts or
anything, i've uninstalled Norton.



When it reboots the first time after starting the installation i'm
getting a blue screen that says "A problem has been detected and Windows
has shut down to prevent damage to your computer"

Underneath this it has:

*** STOP:0x0000007B (0x80599BB0 0xC0000034 0x00000000 0x00000000)

I'm not experienced really with computers so I have no idea what this
is or how to fix it so i can upgrade to Vista.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.


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"Eyeon" <Eyeon.3ebjnc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> Hoping someone may be able to help me with this.
>
> I bought the Vista Ultimate Upgrade from ebay and received it today,
> but i'm having trouble upgrading my XP Pro machine.
>
> I go through the install process and there are no conflicts or
> anything, i've uninstalled Norton.
>
> When it reboots the first time after starting the installation i'm
> getting a blue screen that says "A problem has been detected and Windows
> has shut down to prevent damage to your computer"
>
> Underneath this it has:
>
> *** STOP:0x0000007B (0x80599BB0 0xC0000034 0x00000000 0x00000000)
>
> I'm not experienced really with computers so I have no idea what this
> is or how to fix it so i can upgrade to Vista.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>

Did you run the MS Upgrade Advisory for Vista that tells you if the machine
is capable of running Vista?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...e-advisor.aspx

Trying to upgrade from one version of the O/S to another one to save data or
not having to re-install existing programs on the machine doesn't work out
to well with a lot of trouble. Upgrading Vista to another version of Vista
is ok. But coming from XP to Vista may be another story. I like to format
the hard drive and install the O/S fresh to avoid potential problems. I hear
you can install the O/S fresh with the upgrade install DVD too.

I tried to redo the upgrade with the sata drive not attached and
received the same error.

Does that mean it's probably the ide hdd causing the problem?


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It is something related to drivers, not the drive. (Unless it is an older
IDE drive that needed ATAPI.sys support.)
You can try installing to the SATA drive, or go into BIOS and disable the
SATA support until install is done, or install SATA drivers from USB during
the install, or set the SATA drive to work in IDE mode. It's been almost two
years since I had this problem and now I only restore images. I do not
re-install from scratch, so... but for me, I updated the BIOS and unplugged
the second drive. Everything worked fine after that.

MS gives the following advice of which only the last two for 0x7B usually
apply: (and seems to coroborate my experience with this problem.)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935806




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>
> I tried to redo the upgrade with the sata drive not attached and
> received the same error.
>
> Does that mean it's probably the ide hdd causing the problem?
>
>
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I am having the same problem, only I wasn't installing Windows Vista. My
computer came with Windows Vista.
Anyway, last might I shut down my computer, letting it install two updates.
This morning, the computer just can't start without launching startup repair
or having a blue screen with the exact same error or STOP codes. I even let
startup repair use system restore, and used system restore manually. Nothing
helps. I have disconnected all periperhals. It still is being stubborn. HELP!

"Eyeon" wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Hoping someone may be able to help me with this.
>
> I bought the Vista Ultimate Upgrade from ebay and received it today,
> but i'm having trouble upgrading my XP Pro machine.
>
> I go through the install process and there are no conflicts or
> anything, i've uninstalled Norton.
>
> When it reboots the first time after starting the installation i'm
> getting a blue screen that says "A problem has been detected and Windows
> has shut down to prevent damage to your computer"
>
> Underneath this it has:
>
> *** STOP:0x0000007B (0x80599BB0 0xC0000034 0x00000000 0x00000000)
>
> I'm not experienced really with computers so I have no idea what this
> is or how to fix it so i can upgrade to Vista.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>
>
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