No RAID on this machine. It is a 10-inch netbook with a single 160Gb hard drive. Linux booted off of an optical usb drive, but Ubuntu and also OSX Snow Leopard are still able to boot off of the internal hard drive, the same one that Windows 7 is on. OSX
has the first 80GB, Ubuntu has an ~8Gb slice in the middle, and Windows 7 has the remaining ~71Gb. I will definitely copy the dump files and use BlueScreenView on them...
1. OKAY... I tried to get the dump files, but C:/Windows/Minidump does not seem to exist on my system (I also made sure to look in case it was a hidden or system folder.) Also, I could not find any .dmp files anywhere else in my system (I looked in root,
/Windows, and /System32). I found the extended boot menu and disable "reboot on system failure", so I was able to see the message that said it finished the memory dump. I also booted in "Debug Mode" and "enabled boot logging" which both resulted in the same
BSOD, but I cannot find ntbtlog.txt from those, either.
2. I tried to run "sfc /scannow" from the install disk, and it says something like "unable to check system because there are other system repairs pending, please reboot your computer and try again." Well, I have no idea what repairs it's talking about,
and I can't reboot like it wants me to because of this BSOD. Is there any way to cancel the pending repairs or force sfc to run anyways?
EDIT 2. I found /Windows/Winsxs/reboot.xml, and it contained the following. Could this be stopping sfc?
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<PendingTransaction Version="3.1">
<POQ>
<DeleteKeyValue path="\Registry\Machine\COMPONENTS" name="PendingRequired"/>
</POQ>
</PendingTransaction>
3. "The 1st parameter is The NT status code that caused the failure - which means there was no applicable code." So, does this mean that there were no software errors to report?
4. At the end of Startup Repair, when it found no errors to fix, it gave me this info:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 03: unknown
Problem Signature 04: 21200990
Problem Signature 05: ExternalMedia
Problem Signature 06: 6
Problem Signature 07: 0x6b
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
btw, +1 for including notepad in the repair command prompt :)
Work Around:
Copy bootcat.cache from a working server and make it as iso((easy to attach in CD/DVD when you repair)
Boot with repair option and go in Command line mode(CUI).
xxx:
Windows\System32\CodeIntegrity:>ren bootcat.cache bootcat.cache.old
(assume xxx your system drive could be E..)
move to your CD/DVD drive. example F:
F:> copy bootcat.cache E:\system32\codeintegrity
exit from command line.
restart now.
Work perfectly for Win2k8 based OS.