I had tried Win7 32bit version and it had been working fine
on my main machine with a removable drive caddy

Booted up today and got a 0x00000e9 stop message and the OS would not
load any further


I ran a HD diagnostic and it found and re-allocated a few bad sectors...
but Win7 still would not boot.

Odd thing is I performed a fresh install on another known good drive...
with an entirely different caddy
and got the same error upon first boot.

Don't understand this as I made no changes to the system


FWIF: The same machine also runs XP, Vista and Linux
and they all run fine...
the problem is specific to Win7


Machine is an AMD 3800+ dual core
3 gigs of RAM

NVidia chipset

"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>I had tried Win7 32bit version and it had been working fine
> on my main machine with a removable drive caddy
>
> Booted up today and got a 0x00000e9 stop message and the OS would not
> load any further
>
>
> I ran a HD diagnostic and it found and re-allocated a few bad sectors...
> but Win7 still would not boot.
>
> Odd thing is I performed a fresh install on another known good drive...
> with an entirely different caddy
> and got the same error upon first boot.
>
> Don't understand this as I made no changes to the system
>
>
> FWIF: The same machine also runs XP, Vista and Linux
> and they all run fine...
> the problem is specific to Win7
>
>
> Machine is an AMD 3800+ dual core
> 3 gigs of RAM
>
> NVidia chipset


FWIW: I tried even one more install...
but this time I did not format the drive...
and it worked.