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How to fix blue screen stop error 7E?
This Dell Win XP PC keeps blue screening with stop error 7E. I can't boot into safe mode. Last Known Good doesn't work. I keep getting the blue screen. Is there any way to run System Restore by booting to the Recovery Console? Can you suggest any good, free virus scanners you can boot to on CD or USB? Any other ideas? Thank you.
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torimar, would that Recovery Console procedure work considering this is a Dell OEM installation? Have you ever used it?
I am currently scanning with AntiVir CD.
I don't believe it is hardware related. I ran the onboard hard drive diags and it passed.
Thank you.
I am currently scanning with AntiVir CD.
I don't believe it is hardware related. I ran the onboard hard drive diags and it passed.
Thank you.
I have used the principle ideas of this procedure on a Dell laptop once, but I did *not* use the Recovery Console method as described - for being far too complicated, unelegant and MS-like.
I used a UBCD4Win boot CD to simply copy files over, starting from Part Two, Step 6, and omitting the detour of a temp folder and the Console. It worked fine.
Next to UBCD4Win (http://www.ubcd4win.com) you could also use a Bart PE CD (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder), I guess - both, however, cannot be downloaded and have to be manually created from an original Windows CD instead.
A faster way would be to use a Linux boot CD. The Linux Ntfs write support has long attained 100% reliability, and specialized utility distros are well maintained and always up-to-date. I recommend Parted Magic (www.partedmagic.com) - boot off it, mount your system drive, backup and copy files.
I used a UBCD4Win boot CD to simply copy files over, starting from Part Two, Step 6, and omitting the detour of a temp folder and the Console. It worked fine.
Next to UBCD4Win (http://www.ubcd4win.com) you could also use a Bart PE CD (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder), I guess - both, however, cannot be downloaded and have to be manually created from an original Windows CD instead.
A faster way would be to use a Linux boot CD. The Linux Ntfs write support has long attained 100% reliability, and specialized utility distros are well maintained and always up-to-date. I recommend Parted Magic (www.partedmagic.com) - boot off it, mount your system drive, backup and copy files.
Ubcd4win has a system restore feature->regreswiz
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I decided the most efficient way to repair was to recover the data and reinstall Windows. Thank you very much for all your efforts.
francis64,
in your original question you asked:
"Is there any way to run System Restore by booting to the Recovery Console? Can you suggest any good, free virus scanners you can boot to on CD or USB? Any other ideas?"
I thought about this problem, I made three longer posts about it, and I solved your quest for bootable virus scanner CDs.
If you decide not to try the solutions I posted, then you're free to do so. But this doesn't mean that my solutions wouldn't have worked. Instead of following advice that you asked for, you decided to follow the "most efficient way": reinstalling Windows - the last resort overkill solution for 98 percent of all Windows problems.
I could have answered your question with a simple "Reinstall Windows" in my first post, and this would have cost me absolutely no time, no effort, no thought and hardly a sentence of typing. Instead I got involved in solving your problem the way you wanted it solved, and I invested time and effort.
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in your original question you asked:
"Is there any way to run System Restore by booting to the Recovery Console? Can you suggest any good, free virus scanners you can boot to on CD or USB? Any other ideas?"
I thought about this problem, I made three longer posts about it, and I solved your quest for bootable virus scanner CDs.
If you decide not to try the solutions I posted, then you're free to do so. But this doesn't mean that my solutions wouldn't have worked. Instead of following advice that you asked for, you decided to follow the "most efficient way": reinstalling Windows - the last resort overkill solution for 98 percent of all Windows problems.
I could have answered your question with a simple "Reinstall Windows" in my first post, and this would have cost me absolutely no time, no effort, no thought and hardly a sentence of typing. Instead I got involved in solving your problem the way you wanted it solved, and I invested time and effort.
It is common practice on E-E for an asker to select his own comment as a solution, if he could or would not follow expert advice. This way, the records will know what method was applied in the end. It is also common practice to select expert comments that a) hinted at the final solution, b) provided parts of this solution, or c) represent potentially practicable solutions which the asker was simply too busy or too anxious to try, and to distribute most or all of the question points among those 'Assisted Solutions'.
Here on E-E, being fair to an expert is the best way to say "Thank you", and it is even a way that experts have a right and claim to according to the regulations.
However, I shall not press the "Object" button because I'm not on E-E to fight for points. With this post, I only comment on your proposed closure of this thread. Should you change your mind about it before the 19th of this month, you may click the 'Request attention' link in your original question and ask a moderator to reopen the closing procedure.
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torimar, I apologize. You are absolutely right. I hastily tried to close this without even reading my original question. They keep sending me Abandoned Question emails. I will request that it be reopened and review the whole thing. Thank you.
It's for me to thank you.
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