Win 7 recovery with Norton Ghost 15.0 problem. BCD 0xc000000f error. Blue screen.

[dimiwk]

Hi all,
I avoid writing posts of my software problems, but for this one I couldn't find a solution.

I have an Acer laptop (still in warranty)
its HDD failed. The HDD is 320GB sata, toshiba.
I removed the original HDD and I want to temporarily use an USB 160GB WD drive.

I have a backup of C drive on 5 DVDs using norton Ghost.
I've never attempted recovery with it, until now.
(drive C is 37.7 GB, drive d is the remainder to 320 GB).

I followed all instructions for Ghost, I removed all partitions in the 160GB drive.
Ghost created 1st partition 37.7 and deployed all windows and other files there.
everything was successfully completed with all verifications.

BUT!

on attempt to boot from the newly prepared HDD I get this error:
"
File \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc000000f

"Insert Win installation disk ... etc"
"
I inserted win7 disk, selected recovery, It recovered somethng,
then after I boot from the new HDD I get windows startup screen, but followed by restart repeated forever.
I repeated everything from scratch, the whole 5 DVDs recovery.
Same thing:
BCD error.
I downloaded the program EASY BCD.
Inside there was a small BCDboot.exe that could run under dos.
(it was in EasyBcd\bin\BCDboot)
I executed the following line:
BCDboot c:\windows

BCD errror again converted to the other error with constant rebooting and "windows starting" screen.

I could press F8 and I tried several options
"Safe mode", "Last known configuration" - same thing.

With option
"Disable automatic reboot on error"
Now I get a blue screen:
Technical information:
STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFFFFF880009A9928, .............. etc)

Any ideas?
Probably I can do a fresh windows install, but I want to use this backed up set. All drivers, programs and settings are done.

I found out something about Norton Ghost 15 SP1
I think that fixes maybe exactly this kind of problem. But I already made the backup with the original Ghost 15. And I believe the error is already in the backup. Probably some kind of windows protection, that Ghost 15 didnt take care of.

Any way of fixing this?
(I have screenshots, but I dont think for now they are necessary)

 

[carnageX]

Bug Check 0x7B: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

I would recommend first trying a chkdsk on your drive. Get to the command prompt from your recovery boot (if it has one; haven't really used EasyBCD so I can't tell you for sure). Type in: chkdsk c: /f /r

Let it run. Do this to all of the partitions on the drive if you can.

Somethign else to tryif that fails, is from the same command prompt, do a fixboot. If that doesn't work, then do both a fixboot and fixmbr.

 

[dimiwk]

Hi,
The problem is solved.

I got a new INTERNAL HDD for the laptop.

After recovery it repeated error numb 1.
But after I inserted a win 7 installation disk and I chose "Repair" it fixed the booting process in no time.

I guess the problem was the USB drive.

 

[carnageX]

Glad you got it working; thanks for letting us know.