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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: kuovsk.anekask on August 18, 2007, 03:04:30 AM
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Hi everyone.
I've got a problem with Windows Update on Vista (running on an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop (5102AWLMi)) having updated a SATA driver and it now crashes every time it tries to boot up. I've tried every single option on the screen you get by pressing the F8 key at bootup and it still crashes, about 2 seconds into the loading screen. I've printed the STOP error message below. . There is an Acer eRecovery partition on the drive that I booted from but it will just reflash the hard drive to what it was out of the factory and I don't feel like spending hours reinstalling software on it.
I'm a linux guy personally and I've booted a LiveCD on it (with NTFS write support) and I want to use it to replace the broken SATA drivers with the ones from the recovery partition, except I don't know what their filenames are and a Google search doesn't reveal much.
So, does anyone know the filenames for Vista's SATA drivers?
Many thanks in advance.
This is what the STOP screen says (just in case I'm wrong):
A problem has been detected ...
... Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x84A04BA0,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
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Have you tried rolling back the SATA driver?
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You should be able to find the correct drivers at the drive manuf. site...
Or check your MBoard driver disc.
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Have you tried rolling back the SATA driver?
Read the first post. System won't boot, period.
I don't have a vista install DVD to fix it with.
It didn't come with a mobo driver disc either.
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Ok, I've determined that the first file I need to replace is crcdisk.sys after some more google-searching. It's the last file that's listed when I boot in safe mode before it crashes. If it still crashes I'll boot it in safe mode again and repeat the above step (hopefully the last file being a different one)
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It didn't come with a mobo driver disc either.
Visit the board manuf. site...
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I was getting the drivers from the recovery partition, technically, those should work. I don't need to download the drivers. I just need to know which of the bazillions of *.sys files in /windows/system32/drivers are the ones I need to be replacing.
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Well i'm not sure what you're saying because re-installing the SATA driver would cure this issue...
But if you insist on doing it file by file well have fun...
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I can't reinstall it because the system doesn't boot.
Not in safe mode.
Not in any mode.
Not at all.
I don't have a Vista install DVD to use.
The only way I can think of to recover this system without having to reflash the whole disk is to replace the driver, file by file.