I have an XPS 8300 and the original Seagate 2TB hard drive died. Since being forced to install a new HDD, I opted to go for 3TB and purchased a WD because I have had horrible luck with Seagate on many occasions.
Anyway, I installed the new HDD and booted from the Windows 7 64bit Pro installation disk and attached my backup external drive and selected the backup image to put on the new drive. It completed without error but when restarting the computer I get a blue screen of death with the 7B stop code. I tried placing the HDD in an enclosure and attached it to another computer and all of my files from the image are there so I know the computer was able to write the image to the new HDD. How do I resolve the BSOD errors? I've updated to the latest BIOS (A06) but still get the blue screen. I tried installing the latest Intel drivers also and that didn't seem to do anything.
Frustrated, I installed Windows 7 clean on this drive and I am writing this post from it. The drive shows in My Computer as 2TB. Disk management shows 100MB System Reserved Partition, 2047GB C: Partition, and 746GB Unallocated.
Why does a clean install seem to work (I know I'd have to format the 746GB to use it and assign a new drive letter to it) but imaging the drive fails. What am I missing?
I've seen many posts about using the Intel drivers to resolve similar issues. Do those drivers get blown away during the imaging process? Should they be installed prior to imaging from the backup? (Thought I did that but maybe I didn't do it correctly - can their installation be verified prior to imaging the disk?) Tried calling Dell and Windows support... got no where in a hurry.