How to fix BSOD 0x0000007B on Win7 and Enable Ide, Ahci, Raid mode without re-installing.

When you convert an already installed Win7 Image in to a Virtual Image or if you do a complete PC restore from one machine to another- you might face the 0x0000007B Stop error.  This will happen in a loop and you have to disable the Auto Restart to see the blue screen error code.  When this error appears windows does not create any memory crash dump because a device driver that the computer boot controller needs is not configured to start during the start-up process.

The hitch is that drivers are there but not enabled in an effort to improve boot performance. Only the one required driver (Ide, AHCI, RAID) is loaded to save the boot time.

After trying couple of things for hours I came up with following steps that consistently worked for me:

Boot to Baremetal Windows ( If it’s a VHD then mount the VHD)

Depending on what interface you have, you need to change the start value of corresponding registry entry to load the driver. If the value is 3, that driver would not load.  So if you are going from AHCI to IDE, which is the case in most of P2V then

Open regedit.  

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\IntelIde]

Change the data for value "Start" from "3" to "0".

6a.Also repeat for: HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet001/Services/ and edit the "Start" parameter to the corresponding value from the list:

Aliide = 3

Amdide =3

Atapi = 0

Cmdide = 3

iaStorV = 3

intelide = 0

msahci = 3

pciide = 3

viaide = 3

Also check these two reg entries

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlSet001\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_7111] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC108002BE10318}" "Service"="intelide"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlSet001\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_7110&cc_0601] "ClassGUID"="{4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" "Service"="isapnp"

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How to Switch between IDE/AHCI/RAID

Switch between IDE/AHCI/RAID

The registry changes which allow you to switch between Ide, Ahci and non-member raid modes in windows 7 using a single disk without re-installing 

Go into the registry using regedit and change each of the "start" values in the registry keys below from 3 to 0 and this will allow you to change between the different modes by just changing the option in your Bios each time you reboot.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\pciide

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStorV

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Intelide

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Use windows7 recovery console to change the registry
Boot from win 7 install disk, choose recovery, and command prompt.
Open the registry editor: regedit
This loads the registry editor with a temporary registry, not the windows registry from the hard disk.
Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry tree, and go to the File menu and choose "Load Hive".
Open the registry hive file SOFTWARE from the location: C:\Windows\System32\Config
Give it a random name different to any of the existing names (the name doesn't matter).
Make the necessary changes to the registry hive.
Select the registry hive you edited, go to File, and choose "Unload Hive".
Then exit the recovery console and restart. The registry should have been changed.