PC going backwards never gets to the same place with this disc

The problem is best descibed as a list of events I think:-

PC A boot & works ok.
Removed disc and put in in PC B
PC B boots & works fine.

Put same disc back in PC A - BSOD!

Put disc back in PC B again - boots and works fine

Put disc back in PC A - BSOD (again)

Restored images (verified as ok) onto disc.
PC A *still* bsods!!

Restored track zero and MFT
PC A still BSODs

Looks to me like PC A has developed a fault?
Do you think that is a good bet as to the fault?

ps These are not my machines - trying to help someone out but have run
out of idea.
thx

 

The problem would be better described if sufficient information was given

Are both PC's hardware identical
Are they new builds
What error code is given with the BSOD's
Did both PC's ever work
etc.

 

Can you run PC A from any sort of 'live' disk, e.g. MemTest86+, UBCD4W or
Puppy Linux?

Phil, London

 

!
There is always "more information".

Not really relevant to problem as described

Not really relevant to problem as described

(sigh) do you know much about bsods? Anyway Not really relevant to
problem as described.

Yes - would have mentioned it otherwise

I see you have no idea either then,.

ps
PC A has blue case PC B a white one


Thanks.

 

Good suggestion there Phil - will pass that on for him to try. I have
linux Live CD already.
thanks

 

Although this isn't the fault, it's somewhat dodgy doing this with
Windows disks - Windows tries to adapt to the hardware it's in, albeit
not enough to be useful, but enough to trip up the hardware
re-activation flag and sometimes to smoosh the boot sequence. Which is
nice. So the disk may have been changed enough while in B, to not boot

PC A is having some trouble.

Yes. I should first unplug+replug everything inside A, in case you
joggled something while moving the HD around.

Then tear A down to minimal setup - motherboard, no disks, one stick
of RAM, video card - and see whether it's happy in the bios. Then add
the RAM, CD, and boot off a Linux liveCD or memtest86 CD.


By the way, what were you trying to diagnose with the original disk
swapping?

Cheers - Jaimie

 

It is totally relevant. The STOP message that comes with the BSOD is a
vital clue as to might be wrong.

If you won't proved that info, there is little anyone can do to help.

 

STOP 7B AKA inaccessible boot volume I suggest?

Is this a SATA drive?

If so, set the failing PC BIOS 'SATA Mode' to IDE or Emulation, or the
other way(?). Too many variables past that to guess. Need more information.

 

I don't even see where he's said what the op. system is.
Anyway can't be bothered now.