Don’t panic, if you’ve gotten this error message

“A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

If this is the first time you’ve seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps:

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Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0X0000007B (0XF78BE524, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE“

Causes:

You may receive a “Stop 0×0000007B” error message if your computer has

Boot Sector Viruses

Computer is infected with boot-sector viruses

Device Driver Issues
A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is not configured to start during the startup process.
A device driver that the computer boot controller needs is corrupted.
Information in the Windows XP registry (information related to how the device drivers load during startup) is corrupted.
Hardware Issues

If there is a resource conflict between the boot controller and another controller or between SCSI devices

Boot Volume Corrupted

When the boot volume is corrupted and cannot be initiated by Windows XP. If the file system is corrupted and if Windows XP cannot initiate the boot volume during the startup process, either move the drive to another computer that is running Windows XP

Solution:

The first thing to try for this error A Problem Has Been Detected and Windows Has Been Shut Down to Prevent Damage to Your Computer message, is to boot from the Windows XP installation CD and get to the recovery console, then do a chkdsk /f check, if it finds errors at the end of the scan, reboot the computer and hope for the best.

If it don’t resolve then, you can fix this using Reimage - the online PC Repair tool.

You can create a boot cd first and then run Reimage repair from the boot-CD. View Using Boot CD with Reimage video(on the side bar menu of this blog) to get rid of boot-sector virus and fix corrupted system files.

Reimage’s core purpose is to get rid your computer of system failures random crashes, registry problems, virus problems, blue screens and thousands of other common problems people face with their computers every day. Reimage will automatically:

Scan & Repair Your Computer
Eliminate Windows Crashes and Freezes
Replace damaged DLLs and System files
Prevent Annoying Error Messages
Keep your Data and all Programs Intact
Destroy any and all existing threats on your PC…

Reimage reinstalls the operating system without touching user data or applications.It uses a huge database or repository of over 25 million components of system files to compare to those which are missing or corrupt on your system. And on a brief analysis it will make the necessary corrections making your PC as good as a freshly installed one, only with all your files still there.