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Bobkberg
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 Stop 0x7B Cause found
stop 0x7b, Stop 7b, XP downgrade
Not a question - an answer. I discovered this while trying to "downgrade" an Acer PC to Windows XP. I kept getting a stop 0x7B with a message indicating that the hard disk may have been infected, or corrupted. Final resolution turned out to be that the DVD drive in the PC had no "DOS" driver that the install routine could call, and so past the point where XP install would say "Starting Windows" the system would crash with the 7B error. This was an LG Electronics OEM drive. LG Electronics techs were very helpful in providing this information. Solution was to use a retail CD (or DVD) drive which DID have drivers. Then the XP installation was successful.

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ASKED: June 5, 2008  3:50 PM
UPDATED: November 16, 2009  5:02 AM
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Bob, nice work. That's the type of installation problem that can drive you nuts trying to figure it out.
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i am also getting same problem. it says starting windows and same error comes. How do we get the drivers for cd rom? can u help me in that?

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