Universal Restore - Giving It What It Needs
I'm trying to bring an ancient xp system onto a newer desktop. I am getting the dred 0000007B blue screen of death.
I understand why. I get it. So I go to the HP website find the computer and download and expand the sata driver files onto a USB drive and tell Universal Restore where the drver is on the flash drive. Restore says it can't find the driver.
I go to the Nvidia geForce site and get the same drivers (different package) and put those on the flash drive.
Restore says it can't find the driver.
What do I have to do to package the driver so Universal Restore can find/use them?
TIA
Ed


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The 0000007B error is a Windows STOP error when drivers are not found to support the hardware. You should be getting messages from Universal Restore telling you what driver it cannot find which will be in hardware ID format (example PCI\VEN_1B21&DEV_0612&SUBSYS_858D1043&REV_02). Can you post these please so that it might be determined what driver is in fact not being found?
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In reply to Ed, welcome to these User… by truwrikodrorow…

It ain't that ancient! The drives are SATA. As for the BIOS I have no idea.
The format of drivers in this particular situation are the exe files that the manufacturers (Dell, HP) post for download that have been expanded out into their constituent folders and files and placed on a thumb drive that ATI sees.
The backup was made with the WD OEM version and verified with the paid 2018 ver.
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In reply to The 0000007B error is a… by truwrikodrorow…

I understand very well what the 0007B error is.
In this particular case the driver it is specifying is:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_03F1&SUBSYS_2A6C103C&REV_A3
What I'm really after though is a bit of self sufficiency since the machine in question is really just being used as a test. I've searched that driver number and it seems not to be known to Google.
I can install XP on this machine using an install CD, so the driver is available. I just can't seem to make it available to Universal Restore.
How does one go about acquiring the driver so that it can be put on a thumb drive and made available as an inf, msi, or whatever the program can use
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Ed, from the driver information given in your last post, this looks to be for a Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller and as such may be provided within the Chipset drivers or else would be found by Windows Update unless this particular controller is not supported by Windows XP
If you are able to install a basic vanilla copy of Win XP on the new computer where this driver is found by the install process, then you should be able to a driver extraction tool to pull this from that XP system to include on your AUR media.
You could use such as Double Driver or DriverExtractor 3.1 or any other program that offers the option to backup installed device drives.
Note: I wouldn't expect a missing USB controller driver to stop AUR from working and allowing your restored XP OS to try to boot on the new hardware - it is normally the SATA controller or motherboard chipset drivers that would prevent this.
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These USB drivers can cause a system not to boot. I would look for an XP USB driver on the the mobo support site first and if you cannot find one then look for an one on the install CD of the mobo if you have it.
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In reply to Ed, from the driver… by truwrikodrorow…

Steve,
I found a copy of Double Driver and used it to backup the drivers on a clean XP install. I'm now restoring the drive from a TLB file and will put AUR to the test with those backed up drivers.
One quick question... When you specify where drivers are in AUR, will AUR traverse subdirectories, or do I have to tell it precisely which folder the driver is suspected of being in?
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In reply to Ed, from the driver… by truwrikodrorow…

>> this looks to be for a Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
How does one know that? Where can you look up what device that string pertains to?
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Ed, you should point AUR to the folder where the .INF & .SYS files for the device driver(s) are stored and it should find all that it needs from there.
For the driver identification, I simple did a Google search on the information given less the last revision details, then look at the hits produced.
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Well... No joy.
I did a clean reinstall of XP, then went looking for the drivers. Found the driver in device manager and double checked to make sure that the id matched what AUR says is missing. Copied that to a thumb drive and added the exact folder where the USB drivers were written by Double Drive.
Can't find it said AUR. I clicked ignore, then ignore all. AUR said operation succeeded.
It didn't. Now it won't even try to boot.
Got any ideas? I'm fresh out.
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I would recommend that you download and try DriverMax HERE
This tool is superior to Double Driver. It will allow you to extract all driver files from a Windows installation and save those files to a folder.
So, you would download and install DriverMax on the clean install of XP you have. Next, create a folder on your AUR media like MyDrivers. Run the DriverMax utility and select all drivers and select Save to the folder you created on your AUR media.
Now run AUR on your recovered disk again and when it asks for drivers point to the folder you created. AUR should find all needed drivers for the new hardware and install them. When finished see if you can now boot the machine.
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In reply to I would recommend that you… by truwrikodrorow…

Well that was an excersize in futility...
Installed DriverMax, told it to create an archive, it said backup completed, then totally froze up.
Searched the drive and found no backed up driver files anywhere.
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Ed, can only suggest trying different driver tools in case this is a case of some not liking XP anymore?
See webpage: Best Free Windows Driver Backup and Restore or Top 5 Windows Driver Backup Software for some options.
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Your issue with DriverMax indicates possible driver issue in your clean install, an incorrect driver, missing driver, corrupted driver, etc.
Have you verified that all drivers are working correctly by looking in Device Manager for any indications of problem devices?
The article HERE
can help in finding driver issues in XP
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