Hard Drive Not Booting

bigtalon

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Ok, I have a Hitachi Deskstar 7k1000.b-750 to start with.

The problem is this: It will not boot up at all, It will launch windows repair, but it can't repair, will reboot again and ask "Start Normally or Launch Windows repair"

The error code is:
"Stop: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A98E8, 0xFFFFFFFFC00000...."

I have run a Chckdsk, Nothing Found, I have run a Virus Scan, Nothing found...

I then downloaded Hitachi's DFT, Ran all the tests, The hard drive passed them all. Long Test and Short Test, I have done every test I can think of, and No problem has been found...

Does anyone have any suggestions ? I was told that deleting my MBR could do the trick, but how do I replace the MBR once I delete it, or does it automatically recreate a new MBR ?
 
Your error is a symptom of a root kit virus, which is very difficult to remove. The most common fix for this is to remove all the partitions on the drive (full erase of the hard drive), then reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, this will delete all of your data.

There is a way to try and fix it, it works for some, others it does not. Here is the link:

http://triplescomputers.com/blog/casestudies/stop-error-0x0000007b-0xfffff880009a98e8-0xffffffffc000000d-0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000000/

 

ram1009

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I have had corrupt boot sectors many times. My solution has always been to replace the HDD and install a fresh OS. After the OS is up & running you can install the old HDD as a second drive and migrate data at your leisure.
 

John_VanKirk

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Hi there,
You didn't mention if you are running Win-7 or Win-8, and whether you have the DVD installation disk to get to the Win-RE. (or can download it).
Here is a discussion from MS of exactly the Stop Error 7B with same parameters. See it trying the suggestions is successful.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/blue-screen-0x0000007b-and-continuous-reboot-after/7818fad2-5253-40ef-a169-ab50b41e7c51
Since Error Code 7B usually means inaccessible boot device, might consider running BootRec /FixBoot from the DVD installation disk. MS has an article on using BootRec.exe tool in the Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair StartUp issues in Windows.