Re: Service Pack 2 (sp2) woes.
From: root (postmaster_at_buchanangc.com)
Date: 08/22/04
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:44:48 -0700
"Frankster" <Frank@REMOVEALLCAPSitcreek.com> wrote in message
news:WO2dneFL77ZZvLXcRVn-iQ@giganews.com...
> Check with "root" in this newsgroup. He will tell you that there is
nothing
> wrong with SP2. It's all your fault! LOL.
This NG distills the 1 in 1000 that have a problem. Of those it's mostly a
minor problem. All the rest never even come here. A few sysadmin regulars
have reported things like 50 installed with no problem or one minor fix.
> "wef" <ppith@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:b25744f0.0408211946.60c60fe3@posting.google.com...
> > 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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