To Whom it May concern,
I installed EasyBCD 1.7.1 on a new system that came installed with Vista Business Edition. I was planning on completely removing the Vista Bootloader and partition and reformatting/installing Windows XP. I have done this before with Easy BCD in the past and it has always worked flawlessly. I followed the command line instructions... I can not remember where I found these instructions, but this is what I entered from the EasyBCD Power Console prompt:
cd bin
mbrfix /drive 0 fixmbr /yes
mbrfix /drive 0 clean
However, upon reboot with my Windows XP install CD, it loads all the drivers and install configuration, but when it comes to finding any partition to install Windows XP I receive the following STOP error:
STOP: 0x0000007B
This error is then followed by memory registers and then says the boot partition may be infected with a virus.
If I boot without the XP install CD it boots to a screen that says:
"operating system not found"
I wondered if I needed to change the native SATA to IDE. However, this is a Sony VAIO and when I access the BIOS there are no options to remove virus checking for the boot sector nor is there any options to changes the disk controllers. I am thinking this has been caused by the version of Vista? I should have added it into my list of O/S's? Any suggestions on what can be done? Thanks.
JonH
I installed EasyBCD 1.7.1 on a new system that came installed with Vista Business Edition. I was planning on completely removing the Vista Bootloader and partition and reformatting/installing Windows XP. I have done this before with Easy BCD in the past and it has always worked flawlessly. I followed the command line instructions... I can not remember where I found these instructions, but this is what I entered from the EasyBCD Power Console prompt:
cd bin
mbrfix /drive 0 fixmbr /yes
mbrfix /drive 0 clean
However, upon reboot with my Windows XP install CD, it loads all the drivers and install configuration, but when it comes to finding any partition to install Windows XP I receive the following STOP error:
STOP: 0x0000007B
This error is then followed by memory registers and then says the boot partition may be infected with a virus.
If I boot without the XP install CD it boots to a screen that says:
"operating system not found"
I wondered if I needed to change the native SATA to IDE. However, this is a Sony VAIO and when I access the BIOS there are no options to remove virus checking for the boot sector nor is there any options to changes the disk controllers. I am thinking this has been caused by the version of Vista? I should have added it into my list of O/S's? Any suggestions on what can be done? Thanks.
JonH
