I recently built a pc
Specs
Amd fx 6300
rosewill 80 + bronze psu
msi 760gm-p34
gtx 960
4gb of corsair xms3
when i start the win 7 install it says loading win 7 files then it either
a - says windos has failed to start because of the winload.exe file with a status of 0xcc0000098
or b - loads win 7 files does the start up image the BSODs
I just want to get win 7 installed and play some pc games
I thought that too so i got another disk then it says Windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connection
Check for any loose connections inside the pc, the video card, the power supply cables, the hard drive cables, etc.
I took a hard drive form an old pc that has windows 7 and when that hdd is in the old pc it works but in my new gaming rig it starts up the bsods
In general you can't take a Windows install from one pc and put it in another. If the mobo, cpu etc is almost exactly the same, you might just get away with it, but usually due to different hardware, drivers etc you get a BSOD. I believe there's a method called sysprep that does this, but you may get licence/activation issues.
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