After a major hardware upgrade, I've been getting BSODs with the following code?

Question

KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

And at the bottom it gives me the code:
stop: 0x0000007A (0x00000020, 0xC000009D, 0x87F8F5D4, 0x000000000)

At the bottom is also says something about initializing dump (or something along those lines) but nothing ever happens.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
My system:
CPU: i7 920 @ stock speed
RAM: 6GB Corsair DDR3 (3 modules)
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth X58
HDD: Maxtor Diamondmax 500GB (with 50GB partition for OS and rest for storage) & Hitachi Deskstar 160GB (currently only has a second Win7 boot on it)
GPU: GTX460

My HDDs are about 4 or 5 years old (the Hitachi is close to death, but for some odd reason my PC refuses to boot when I take it out. I also can't reinstall windows right now because my motherboard doesn't support my DVD burner).
The GPU is about 1 year old (iirc.. not quite sure, but it's not THAT old).
Everything else is either new or only a few months old (the CPU and memory are 2nd hand, the motherboard is new).

Answer 1

This error occurs when the OS trys to use the swapfile on the harddrive and it fails.



Causes are:



1) Failing hard drive

2) Faulty RAM

3) Motherboard fault

Answer 2

That error indicates a problem with the hard drive. Microsoft recommends doing a checkdisk, and having it repair any errors:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/blue-screen-with-this-error-code/03276fa2-6dcb-44d0-a778-499d5d00b65d



The drive may be going bad, or you may have another hardware failure.



btw, if your motherboard supports a hard drive, it also supports a DVD(every mb produced in more than 5 years supports any DVD drive on the market). Read the motherboard manual if you don't know how to install it.

Answer 3

that happens mostly with HP printers - virus and sometimes the HDD or its controller



system refuses to boot without that drive?? is it a system drive or part of a raid or aray?

non supported DVD is connected ?



you have dual boot? boot.ini is on what drive or partition? default boot is ?



;

;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.

;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.

;

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT