Death to my new p-7805u?

I recently purchased a fx p7805u gateway laptop from somebody off of craigslist. The previous owner took extremely good care of it, the laptop still smells new, really it did at the time i picked it up. Anyways, that was about 3 weeks ago and at the moment my laptop is down for the count.

long story short, gparted screwed up a partition which required me to literally wipe the hdd clean, clean as in the clean all cmd in diskpart. So I have a nice clean hdd.

Ive spent the past 3 days trying to get a OS installed on it, only to end up with a bsod every time windows finishes up loading up the files necessary for installation. I looked up the error code (0x0000007b) and its pretty much related to the hdd. i dont have any drivers for my hdd or motherboard. The previous owner did not have a recovery disc. The drive originally came with a seperate 9gb partition, but its long gone. Ive done everything I can go get my laptop back up, but everything I do is FAIL, haha. The drive is in a healthy state and passed WD diagnostic, so the drive is fine.

So this is where you 7805u owners come into play. Is there a site where I can download the recovery disk(assuming it has the drivers for this laptop) or can anyone upload it somewhere? Im begging here, i really dont want to call gateway for a recovery disk .... yet.

Please? anyone? Do I have any other option?

 

Which OS did you install? What did you format the drive to?

 

If you are trying to install XP, you'll want a SP3 disc AND/OR slipstream the SATA drivers onto a new disc using nLite. Older XP discs do not have the SATA drivers included in the disc, which is why you are BSODing during the installation.

If you have Vista and are getting that error, you probably want to try an installation using a new/different disc. Sounds like it might be a bad disc.

 

Sorry for the lack of information.

I was trying to install XP home and pro. I have a copy of vista that doesnt boot on the laptop, yet it boots up on my pc. I reformatted to NTFS.

EDIT - I also hooked up my laptops HDD to my PC and installed xp on it and ran fine.

 

Ok, i slipstreamed SP3 to my xp sp2 disc, burned the bootable iso and STILL ing gets an error. This is getting rediculous, i should have never ed with gparted. 3 days and counting

 

You still have to slip stream the sata drivers as well. Or change the disk acess type in the bios would be another option.

 

Alitronic....I lost count of how many hours ive been trying to get this laptop to boot XP. I know its been more than 30hrs. There were times where I thought I broke my new laptop because I went beserk after so many BSOD. My girlfriend would walk into the room and walk right out because she saw that "look" on my face. I had family and friends calling me on my cellphone, i never picked up. I truely thought my laptop was fubar. I changed the disk access type to IDE and now installing XP on my laptop! If I had some extra cash, id paypal it to you. unfortunetly this laptop zapped that extra cash.

So to anyone who has issues with bsod after loading files for installation, CHECK YOUR DISK ACCESS TYPE IN YOUR BIOS![SOLVED]

PS - I still dont believe the answer was right under my nose. *sigh*

Thanks guys!

 

This simply means you weren't slipstreaming the sata drivers onto the xp disk correctly.