Netbook will not boot

[urinalfresh]

Hi
I have a emachines net book which will not boot up ,just gets an error missing file message, so have got an external drive and tried with xp disc boots to a point then i get the blue screen with the error codes 0x0000007b (0xf7a9263c,0x0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000
Tried looking for solution everywhere not no luck
Anybody help please.

[Salmon Trout]

Crazy screen name! Not one that will endear you to many people here. You could have hardware troubles for example a failed hard drive.

[SuperDave]

0x0000007b (0xf7a9263c,0x0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000

Here's what that error means. Did you do something to it before it stopped booting?
The filename, directory name,or volume label syntax is incorrect

[BC_Programmer]

Here's what that error means. Did you do something to it before it stopped booting?
The filename, directory name,or volume label syntax is incorrect

BSOD's display bugcheck codes, not standard Windows Error Codes.

So while 0x7b indicates ERROR_INVALID_NAME as a Windows Error Code, for the BSOD the code is a BugCheck code and indicates INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

This makes sense. Windows XP cannot be booted from an external Optical Drive because it will reinitialize the USB Host Bus while starting and lose access to it, as I recall.

It would probably be useful to know what the error messages from the failed, normal boot up are though, rather than simply the BSOD trying to boot from the disc."error missing file message"'s usually indicate the file that is missing.