Hi People, I know quite a lot about PC’s myself so I have already attempted to fix the problem so I am going to share what I have learnt with you guys in order to help speed up the process of finding a solution. Ok so this is the problem I recently received a new IDE HDD for Christmas but when it came to cloning my current HDD onto the new HDD I get a BSOD (blue screen of death) Stop Error Message “stop: 0x0000009c (0x00000004, 0x80545ff0, 0xb2000000, 0x00070f0f)” now I admit at first I jumped into conclusion that the new HDD was faulty and took it back to the shop they tested it and told me there wasn’t a problem with it but gave me a new one just incase, I took it home set it to slave drive and attached it correctly to the computer I set the bios correctly so that it auto detected it and then attempted to clone the old HDD onto the New Hdd again (Using Norton Ghost 9.0) and with in 5 minutes I received the exact same BSOD error message. I researched this error message and apparently it means I have a hardware problem (which yet again would point to the new HDD) now I decided to test the new HDD again and took our the old HDD and inserted the New HDD with the jumper setting set to master I installed windows and some other software with no problems at all and I have had this up and running for around a week without a single problem. So I set everything back up for the cloning and yet again I get BSOD so I do a little more research into it and fair enough on all the forums people are having a similar problem but its not always Caused by HDD problems it can be Disk drives graphics cards even floppy drives. Their was one thing I found every single person to have in common they all had an AMD athlon processor (but different processing speeds) and a MSI K8N Neo2 –FX motherboard now obviously this is more then a coincidence this is more then 50 ppl all with similar problems and same make hardware but I remember when I first got my computer (almost 2 years ago) I had 2 HDD’s attached back then for months with out a problem and also im sure this problem would have been found and sorted by now if one of the hardware’s was at fault so I then moved on my thinking what works very close with hardware and changes a lot? Well obviously the operating system any pc technician will know that when the operating system is first installed onto a computer it configures itself to the hardware (such as processor ect…) as it is the interface between software and hardware. Now over the 2 years I have had it I have lost count of the number of updates I have downloaded form Microsoft to update my windows xp sp2 and maybe one of these updates is causing this problem? If this is true then it would be difficult to find the cause of the problem and might explain why after searching countless web pages I failed to find a solution to this problem. So anyways im baffled to how I can fix this problem and this is the last stop before I give in and take it to my local computer repair shop. Can anybody help me on this subject or at least send me to a link to were that can? --------------- Computer Spec AMD Athlon 64 bit, 3.2GHZ Processor, socket 939 MSI K8N Neo2-FX mainboard. AGP, ATI Radeon 9250SE, 128MB 512MB DDR1 RAM 80GB HDD/ 160GB HDD 550W ATX power supply

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iv checked that website before trouble is many differnt things can cause this same problem so for him it was his video card but mine is obvouslt somthing to do with the HDD/Proccesor/OS. any more help Would be appreciated :)

Hi dr death, Bob, hi everyone Being a Ghost fan myself, I never thought I would be saying this... Before you take your computer to the repair shop, pay a visit at the website of the new HDD. You will most likely find find a small download that will help you to clone your old HDD to the new one. That is probably the same thing they will do. Unfortunately you didn't mention the brand and model of the new HDD, otherwise I would have looked it up for you and providing I could find it post a direct link to it. :-) Hope this helps. Best Regards and Wishes, The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com

nah still happens i have the feeling the operating system is at fault

Hi dr death, Bob, hi everyone Hopefully one of these two links belong two your new HDD it's manufacturer. Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2 for DOS from Western Digital; "If you plan on copying the contents of a boot drive, Western Digital recommends using the DOS version of Data Lifeguard Tools." (http://support.wdc.com/download/) MaxBlast 4 from Maxtor; "The copy feature lets you make an exact duplicate of your existing hard drive." This feature is found under Utilities in the main screen of the program. Both utilities run from DOS, as they are bootdisks, and thus the copy process would happen without Windows running and therefor avoiding the BSOD Stop error message. :-) Best Regards and Wishes, The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com

Suggest you use another cloning program. Try ghost 2003/8.0. It runs from dos and doesn't use windows. I suspect the problem lies in trying to clone while XP is active. You can also find other free programs such as ranish.com.