Re: Can you run SFC from the Recovery Console on the XP Setup CD?

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John John wrote:

The RAID controller failed (smoked), so I removed it and reconnected
the two EIDE drives as Master and Slave on the Primary IDE socket on
the motherboard. Initially, it booted up just fine.

Did you then properly break the mirror?


I think so. When I started the machine, just before Windows begins to
boot, I told the RAID controller to "Delete the RAID" and it
acknowledged that the RAID set had been returned back to two
stand-alone drives. Does that sound right?

Yes, the mirror appears to have been broken properly.


But, then, it

wouldn't start the next day. That's when I tried running the XP Setup
CD Repair (which failed to see the Windows install on the Master drive
and failed half way through on the Slave drive) and then the Restore
Console. At this point, I disconnected the Slave drive and just
concentrated on running the mbr and boot fixes that're available via
the Restore Console on the Master drive.

As I mentioned earlier, I was doing fine for awhile, just rebooting and
selecting the "disable auto-boot on error" command so the system
stopped when it hit a blue screen during the install. Then I just
expanded the faulty .dll file listed in the blue screen from the XP
Setup CD and rebooted until it blue screened out again on another .dll
file. I kept doing this until, all of a sudden, the option to "disable
auto-boot..." disappeared from the F8 Safe Mode screen and it kept
auto-booting past the blue screen. That's when I posted the message in
the newsgroup here.
If it helps, I wrote down the last three files I fixed from the blue
screens:
sfcfiles.dll
lz32.dll
olecli32.dll
Then, it halted saying this file was corrupt or missing:
\windows\system32\config\system
The file was there, but I couldn't tell if it was corrupt, so I copied
the file from the XP Setup CD \i386 folder to the c: drive.

That file doesn't exist on the Windows CD, it's created when you install
Windows. It's made up according to what type of computer hardware you
have and the information that the Windows setup program gathers during
the installation.


Then I must have just renamed or deleted the original SYSTEM and then
renamed the SYSTEM.SAV to SYSTEM. Again, I've been going 'round and
'round with this for several days and I'm a bit hazy on some of the
details.

>
I think

that may(?) have been when the "auto-boot" option disappeared from the
F8 screen. But I'm not positive because I'd been trying a number of
things on the Restore Console around the same time...

It's not surprising that the boot options then changed and that it
failed completely. Your earlier step completly destroyed the System hive.


I think you're right.



You might want to try this on the drive and installation that you are
working on: http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=307545

Use your BartPE disk to carry out the operation. Skip part one
altogether. The final goal of the exercise is to replace the broken
hives in the \Windows\system32\config folder with the most recent ones
available, the ones that were last backed up by System Restore, they are
in the System Restore Snapshot folder.



Replacing the hives in the config folder with the ones in the Snapshot
folder is the last and only thing left to try. Copy from the newest
Snapshot folder and replace ALL the hives together as a matched set (not
just the System hive), as it instructs you to do so in the article.
That is your last hope. If that fails salvage your data and reinstall
Windows.


Am I still skipping Part One -- You don't want me to rename the current
hive files for backup just in case??

What's the use of them? They're completely broken. If you want to save them it's up to you, easy to save them if you wish.

John
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