Unable to boot - Safe Mode stops after crcdisk.sys

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MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

The link you provided just gives me a 404 page ^^ (wow, how helpful is that!?)

Having the same or similar issue since yesterday on my Fista Ultimate (32bit). It fails to boot in all safe modes (stopps always after crsdisk.sys) but is able to boot in normal mode! But after a minute or two Windows seems to be unable to accessing the hard-drive!

Scheduled run of chkdsk does not run:

cannot open volume for direct access

Used original Fista-Ultimate-CD and DELL Diagnostics utility which found no error on the hard-disk! It took me hours running such tests but hard-disk has no bad sectors or other erros!?

Why is it possible that Fista is unable to boot in safe mode but boots in normal mode!?

I though that "safe mode" means that only Microsoft drivers etc. are loaded etc. (but just google for "vista unable boot safe mode" and you'll find tons of entries ...)

I haven't changed any hard or software ... The problem just appears on a reboot ...

I'll try using msconfig for disabling all non-MS services/drivers (BTW, silly "bug" in msconfig which does not disable all MS services since sometimes developers in Redmond to not know where they are working: Microsoft or Microsoft Corp or Microsoft Corporation ^^ - already done feedback to MS - or just look at Add/Remove panel and you'll maybe seen that this company has more than one names - funny when like to sort by company name ...)

"Software quality" isn't a term I bring together with Microsoft. Just search via Google (not Bing, since it won't give you useful search results) and you'll see millions of trouble with Windows ....

Sorry for my bad works but I am really angry and very disappointed by Windows Vista Ultimate (that's why I call this "OS" Fista Ultimate .....)

--Harald-René Flasch (aka hfrmobile)

PS: of course "system restore" does not work

Malkeleah,

Man do you have issues.  I came here looking for answers to the same hanging post-crcdisk.sys issue in Vista and I run headlong into a supposed MVP with this kind of attitude.  The attitude guaranteed to keep someone like you out of management pretty much forever...and with good reason.

Iam having the same problem, with two Windows 7 machines failing to start up at the same time.  I had a power failure, and found that the many "normal" troubleshooting cases I tried, including a fresh Windows 7 reinstall, all failed.  All of the machines uses SATA drives, one of the machines booted from an SSD drive.  I've experienced many many power failures and never had a problem the CHKDSK didn't fix, but in this case even a fresh install from the Windows 7 install disk would not fix the problem.  I reset the CMOS, removed the battery from my motherboard, tried every repair option I could find.  Eventually I disconnected all hard drives, bought a new drive and put that in, and installed Windows 7 on it.  But when trying to reconnect the old drives, one at a time, I could not even reformat the SSD drive, until I took it to my laptop  (a third machine, it's looking good at  96% complete).  The fact that the same hardware has two different results depending on which Win 7 machine I try to use it from tells me it's a problem with the original machine.  Yet I reset the BIOS settings, removed the battery, etc.  I don't get it.

The way this happened to two of my machines at home, and possibly a third at work (I'll investigate tomorrow) all at the same time, combined with the user above who reported it happening to 12 machines, tells me this is something other than a drive failure problem.  It's not hardware, unless a software update problem fried these drives. I believe all of the drives were SATA drives, so perhaps there is a bug in a Windows Update SATA driver or something, so that they were all put into some form of error state at the same time. 

At any rate, I found the message from Malkeleah to be thin on reading the problem and thick on abusing the poster who was trying to be helpful. I would report him for posting a message that offered no help but only insults, but it seems he is the moderator.  I agree that the long reply was not helpful because it was a shotgun reply trying to hit a target somewhere, but at least he was trying to help, and none of the insults help resolve the issue, which seems to me to be two-fold:

1. some update, perhaps SATA driver, results in an unbootable hard drive.
2. crcdisk.sys cannot deal with this situation and hangs.

If the second problem was at least detected and resolved, perhaps it could report whatever the condition was that would have otherwise put crcdisk.sys in that state, and that would provide a clue here.

Paul

Wow people like you drive me nuts! Don't belittle the poster because you don't understand his situation. I am running into the exact same problem due to malware. The problem is bad enough without snarky dorks playing the know-it-all and throwing insults around.