Startup hangs at crcdisk.sys in vista

[Bertus]

Hello there,

I have a Dell laptop with 32 bit Vista Home Premium which was an upgrade from XP. Vista on normal startup hangs with a black screen and after loading crcdisk.sys driver in safe mode. Can anyone fix it? Please help.

Thank you.

[Devasis]

I had same problem earlier. I tried some things on my system. Just give a try. Hopefully it will work for you also.

Goto the following folders and delete the following files:

• C:\windows\system32\drivers\pcmcia.sys*
• C:\windows\system32\drivers\1394bus.sys
• C:\windows\system32\drivers\ohci1394.sys
• C:\windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\pcmcia.infblablabla*
• C:\windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\1394.infblablabla
• C:\windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\sdbus.infblablabla*
• C:\windows\inf\sdbus.inf*
• C:\windows\inf\sdbus.PNF*

Search and delete the following files:

• delete sptd.sys
• delete sptd.sy
• delete sptd.sys
• delete sptd.sys

Hope for the best!

[Solomon]

This issue is quickly resolved by pairing your sata devices.
For e.g. Hard drive 1 on SATA 1 and Hard drive 2 on SATA 2 then Optical drive 1 on SATA 3 and Optical drive 2 on SATA 4.
It is very important to keep your Hard Drives together and HDD 1 should always be SATA 1.

[MrChris-]

Restart your computer and choose to edit boot options. You will see a screen which shows default windows boot options: /noexecute=optin. After optin, add /debug command and press esc. (There needs to be a space between optin and /debug.)

Also disable USB keyboard support in the BIOS(Only do this if you are not reliant on a USB Keyboard, otherwise you will lose the use of your USB Keyboard, either use a PS2 keyboard or have a Usb to PS2 converter Handy)

[Calvin K]

Try this:

1. Restart your computer and go into the Thinkpad BIOS by pressing “F1”.
2. Go to Config -> Serial ATA -> Set the option for “Compatibility”. Then hit “F10” to save and exit.
3. After Vista restarts windows might install new drivers for you which will require a restart.
4. Restart your laptop.
5. Now you are ready to install Vista Service SP1 you can do this by either downloading the install or using windows update both will work.
6. Install will run for a while then it will prompt you to restart the computer this is the step where it hangs and break. The fix for this is you have to reboot windows with advance options.
   • Hit OK to restart
   • To enter advance options for windows boot you have to hit “F8” when windows restarts. Be prepared to do this as you do not want to miss this step. Once the laptop starts the restart you can start tapping “F8”. Do not hold it down
   • Once in advance options select “Disable driver signature enforcement” and hit enter.
7. Now the computer should start without hanging you will see a command that says it is loading around ~79000 files let this run. PLEASE NOTE it will reboot a few more times before the upgrade is complete but you do not need to do the advance options for disable driver signature any more. You only need to do it that one time.

[Lillebror]

Goto a command prompt and run the following commands:

• cd \windows
• del *pcmcia*.* /s/p
• del *1394*.* /s/p

[Mel67]

worked perfect thank you

Originally Posted by Lillebror

Goto a command prompt and run the following commands:

• cd \windows
• del *pcmcia*.* /s/p
• del *1394*.* /s/p

[peetor]

I've tried pretty much EVERYTHING under the sun and was about to give up (wipe and reload the OS) until I came across this link. Thanks to Wizardfrost for the humor and logical explanation to the problem. If the link doesn't work, the short answer is to get rid of your antivirus software and replace with something else. Here is his longer answer :-) Thanks and good luck!

My first message was deleted by Dell, presumably for inappropriate language and harassment of their fine company. I will attempt to re-post my response in a more gentlemanly manner.

Ahem...

First of all, Dell felates large masculine genitalia, they should be compensating me generously for their abundance of apocalyptic short-comings. Dell has repeatedly and voraciously abridged the posterior orifices of their customers with abrasive force.

Now, for your solution: There is nothing wrong with your hard disk, there technically isn't anything wrong with Vista either. The system, believe or not, didn't freeze on crcdisk.sys. It froze after that. What's the first thing that executes, even before logon.sys finishes loading? The answer is ANTI-VIRUS.

Whatever you are running for AV spazzed out because you installed something, and it created some sort of corrupted temp file or protected memory space which in turn caused it to spaz out again and halt your system. If you can get to a command or recovery prompt, you can run a chkdsk /f. I guarantee you that chkdsk will freeze up when it gets to the messed up file. You can either write down the file name and delete it, which might buy you enough time in windows to stop the AV service, but if AV froze up during a hardware or driver install, it will probably recreate the error again. Your best bet is to do it the sloppy way, delete the entire AV directory so that it can't run. Reboot your system, reinstall AV, then uninstall it properly and get a new AV. I recommend Avast!, its free, it ten times better than Norton and Mccrapee, and runs on half as much resources.

If it wouldn't be too much trouble, please inform the aforementioned company that you are no longer interested in their inferior products and services, as you will obtain future products from a more responsible party.

Thank you, this concludes my presentation, best of luck with your endeavors.

-Darryl

[PGFracing]

Originally Posted by Lillebror

Goto a command prompt and run the following commands:

• cd \windows
• del *pcmcia*.* /s/p
• del *1394*.* /s/p

What did I just delete and how do I replace it? I found out I was having this same issue. This wasn't the cause (didn't fix it when I did it). It was a bad card reader. Took case off computer and unplugged reader, computer works now. Of course this was after setting to factory resets, but did have most stuff backed up.