hi, i'm really hoping one of you can help me,
i recently installed "clone virtual drive" software on my PC big mistake!
rebooted as the program sayed once it was installed, and to my surprise.
it didn't boot up again.. properly

note:while it loads dell bios, you can access setup and boot options

it boots on to a black screen with 4 options:



*boot windows with network

*boot windows with command prompt

*boot windows in safe mode

*boot windows from last known working point(or something along those lines)

all of the options, either end up on a black screen, or with this:


a blue screen with the following information displayed::----



Problem detected windows shutdown to prevent damage

remove any newly installed hard-drives or hardware controllers

check hard drive is correctly configured and terminated



run CHKDSK /F check for hard disk corruption



technical information:



***STOP: 0x00000078, 0xF8890528, 0x00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000


[b]any helpful replies, will be greatly, greatly appreciated many thanks in advance for any replies i recieve

well the blue screen of death really sucks. you can probably boot in safe mode and then restore to a current setting. either that your gonna probably have to install a clean fresh windows version.

My guess is your pc now sees that vitural drive as a real drive and probably it's not configured right. If you can get in using safe mode disable the vitural drive / program from starting up then get rid of it till you figure it out. Use the Start / Run / msconfig. It should be in the startup list or somewhere in there. When you reboot it then should not be loading up the vitural drive.

thanks for the advice mate,

I'm having exactly the same problem except i tried to do a windows system restore to a previous date to fix something, left it and when i came back the blue screen error was on!

It says the same thing as you stated but my the error code is different and i can't even get in with 'safe mode' please help

The error code mine says is:
***STOP: 0x0000007B

Hi and welcome to the forum

I suggest you to insert in google this

microsoft error 0x0000007B

There are some references on microsoft webpage, but you can choose the right one because you know better what happened to your computer. Articles are referring to different causes, some regarding the installation of SP2, other regarding other errors. So choose the right page and see if you find a solution here. Sorry if I'm not able to say you a more precise link

I have exactly the same probelm only I just did a windows system restore, to a previous date to try and fix something. So I left it to do that and when I came back a blue screen error was showing. The thing is i can't even get on by using 'safe mode', maybe it has something to do with i have a different error code or something. This is it:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0XF8890528, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)

Please someone help me!

There's not really any reason to post the same query twice in the same thread.

And I bet you haven't done as Geno suggested. Doing it yealds plenty of results alot of which give you step by step guides to resolving it.

Check the hard drive settings in your BIOS. Specifically if your drives are set to AHCI, change them to IDE and see if that fixes your problem.