Re: Service Pack 2 (sp2) woes.
From: Frankster (Frank_at_REMOVEALLCAPSitcreek.com)
Date: 08/22/04
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:32:03 -0600
Check with "root" in this newsgroup. He will tell you that there is nothing
wrong with SP2. It's all your fault! LOL.
"wef" <ppith@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, I managed to botch the first installation of service pack 2 with
> the typical atapi.sys problem because of a program called Daemon
> Tools. After I uninstalled this program, I found out that a typical
> solution to get beyond the problem was to rename the file.
> Unfortunately, I aborted the install by choosing not to continue so I
> could reboot and try again later. This caused a lot of problems
> mostly with crashes and detection of new hardware that didn't exist.
> I finally managed to figure out that I had to boot into safe mode and
> then click "no" so I could do a system restore back to the point
> before I started applying service pack 2. Hopefully this will be a
> solution to others who have similar problems with install sp2 and want
> to back out for whatever reason.
>
> However, I have a new problem now. When I boot up and login, I still
> get the message that windows is searching for drivers for new
> hardware. I have to click cancel three times as the dialogue box
> appears three times before I can use my system normally. When I go
> into Control Panel and then device manager, I see eight unknown
> devices. Clicking on properties shows in the details tab that all
> eight are related to either root\legacy_fastfat or
> root\legacy_navex15. Looking in my registry, I see bogus looking
> entries for each of these that look like this:
>
> location:
>
> My
> Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_NAVEX15
>
> example subfolders:
>
> $%&'(
> $%&'()
>
> etc...the characters keep building up one character at a time for a
> while. The entry for fastfat looks similar. When I try to delete
> this key or any of the weird subkeys, I get the error message "error
> while deleting key". Attempts to rename to key give me "error while
> renaming key". I am wondering if there is any way I can edit the
> registry in other ways to get rid of garbage that regedit won't allow
> me to remove. Most of the other "legacy_" keys only contain one
> subfolder except for these two entries. Any help on this would be
> greatly appreciated. I suppose I could either back out to service
> pack 1 and have less security or continue to click cancel three times
> until I upgrade my hardware and reload everything. But I'd appreciate
> any input so I'm not counting down the days to when I reinstall
> Windows XP and take this as a "lessons learned".
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