I was doing a clean install on my PC after getting several errors constantly. PC would boot fine one day then next it would just reboot and reboot. There are no virus on the PC as I have scanned the entire system. I could not even format from the PC itself so I put it on another system and formated it there. Thought that would help but still cannot install XP. When I reach the 6 disk the PC would give the blue screen of death and shows the following Technical Inforamation:- STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF798263C,0XC0000034,0X00000000,0X00000000) Can anybody help? I am assuming at this point that the Hard Drive has gone bad. It is 80GB and partitioned 40/40GB. I still have my important stuff on the 2nd partitioned drive. The system is an AMD Athlon XP Processor 2200 with 768MB, 16x DVD ROM, CD-Writer, ATI Radeon 7000 64MB SDR Graphics Card with TV Out, Creative SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Sound Card, Firewire -3 Port PCI, Ethernet Card, 56K V90 WinModem, etc. HELP.

Make sure the jumper on the HDD set to "Master"? I would try to install with just one stick of known, good RAM. I would delete the primary partition and then recreate it and reformat the drive. Have you tried just booting from the XPCD? One of your floppies may be bad, or dodgy. If that doesn't fix it. Then download the diagnostic tools from the HDD manufacturer's website and test the drive.

Oh. And make sure the HDD is properly identified in the BIOS. You may want to clear your CMOS settings back to factory default.

microsoft knowledge article has an article on this, it can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_xlxv.asp