I did everything, even with another hard disk that was a clone of the one I messed with at registry level.
The funny thing is that, even attempting to do a fresh install of windows 7, I am not able to.
Do not know, maybe x99 is really a pain to deal with.
Last time I migrate from an existing x79 Win7 installation to the x99.
Never did a fresh install before on it.
Well, at the end of the day, only the dvd installation worked. With usb no luck, always errors after the first restart.
In any case, now I am with a very new win7 installation with windows update not functional.
That was what I was trying to avoid…
What a nightmare.
@uazzamerican :
Systems with an X99 chipset have 2 different sorts of Intel SATA ports ("normal" SATA and sSATA ones), which need different sorts of SATA drivers.
Please check, where your future system drive is resp. has to be connected.
@Fernando
The dvd installation was the solution.
No driver needed.
Now the problem is how to update it…
I doubt that. What you certainly mean is, that you had not to load or to integrate any additional third party storage driver.
Search for a Win7 SP1 Update Pack 2021.
I thought you are kidding, but now I’m a bit impressed.
I have another pc with a Z97 motherboard and win7 ultimate, same version I am trying to recover.
What if I copy the entire "boot" folder?
Could I recover the hd?
@uazzamerican
just the “boot” folder? I doubt that would work.
If you made an image of the drive it might work though.
you can use software like Clonezilla to image your drive (although Clonezilla might be a bit too user unfriendly for you, it’s linux-based)
Even used the "dism" command to inject ahci drivers (successfully)
No luck…
Same 0x0000007B error… Does not make sense at all.
@uazzamerican
I meant run these commands
bootrec /rebuildbcd
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
but only after you have just an optical drive and your unbootable installation drive connected.
@infuscomus
Did it already, same results.
I doubt it is bcd related.
I think that somehow the OS keeps trying to load with a not correct (nvidia?) Media driver and I am not able to reset this situation.
Heck I also used several bcd fixers on Hiren’s bootCD that should address any bcd problem.
I am no super expert by I can tell for sure this is not the problem.
It is driver related OR a load sequence that points to a wrong driver.
@Fernando
Yes, but it contains information about the on-board disk drives and their in-use Storage Controllers.
I think you are right.
But how to edit the boot info to put the right driver/controller?
BTW I set the sata controllers to IDE, same.
Update,
I see that using rebuilbcd, it start try to search for a win7 installation.
The result is "0"…
Funny, as the recovery procedure is able to find the installation.
This problem is a real puzzle…
Update2.
It seems it was normal, I had to edit the bcd to process it, with attrib instruction.
In any case, no further results.
Same error.
Done literally everything I could.
MBR and BCD fixed in manually or with several softwares.
Decided to work on a older P45 motherboard, same results.
Tried Paragon adaptive restore, no luck.
I really do not know what the problem is.
It seems I solved every single sorce of 0x000000007b error without getting rid of that.
Incredible…
@uazzamerican :
You are wasting your time. When you change the mainboard, you should better do a fresh OS installation
try using an external OS, and extract all your data (images, documents, game save files, or whatever) from the hard drive inside the computer your using, then do a fresh install