Re: stopping XP reinstall

I am now convinced what I think caused the original BSOD with the customer,
which is a keylogger program. I have already loaded an older image to a 2nd
hard drive, which is how I was able to troubleshoot so easily: a parallel
installation.

The customer was using LimeWire, and I don't doubt he got an extra payload
on a downloaded movie clip. In his case, he may not have requested the
keylogger, but I still consider this a self-infliction.

Since everything I've tried has failed, I am going to recopy the older image
to the 1st hard drive, set up it, and explain to the customer the evils of
"free" downloads. He'll have to reinstall several programs, but this is a
small penance.


"Greg Kirkpatrick [SBSC,MCTS-Vista,MCITP]" wrote:

It's odd, but the boot.ini file did not have any special reference to that --
and I searched for other copies, just in case. I used bootcfg.exe to create
a new boot.ini, but it still jumped back into setup at the next boot.

Later this morning, I will pull all the hardware out, then retry Setup.


"John John (MVP)" wrote:

Manually edit the boot.ini file and remove the reference to:

c:\$win_nt$.~bt\bootsect.dat

John

Greg Kirkpatrick [SBSC wrote:

...except that MEMORY.DMP did not exist after reboot, nor did any Minidump
file.

XP Setup goes to BSOD immediately following splash screen. Same error, 0x7E.

I went back and removed all drivers created after 8/10/2004, and Setup
resumed, but with the ASMS error again. This time, going into the registry
did no good, as there were no UPPERFILTERS or LOWERFILTERS keys. As before,
I pointed Setup to C:\WMC2005\I386, and it was happy (as long as I kept
feeding it the C:\WMC2005\I386 for each file it wanted, about 20 of em),
until it started up with Installing Devices. This time, it got to 34 minutes
before BSOD.

Yes, I tried using BOOTCFG.EXE in Recovery Mode to correct BOOT.INI (some
hours ago) -- but I got no different results. [Yes, I know about the MVP
program. ]

I am going to try removing all the hardware from the machine, then going
through Setup.





"Shenan Stanley" wrote:


<snipped>
Entire conversation:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment/browse_frm/thread/318133699e54c076/ee03529b0eb26a0d#ee03529b0eb26a0d



Greg Kirkpatrick [SBSC,MCTS-Vista,MCITP] wrote:
<snip>

The "alphabet soup" was left off my original note, as I entered the
newsgroup via the Google backdoor. When I reentered via the
Microsoft Community links, it asked me to log in, and thus added my
regular "name". I decided long ago to put my credentials next to
my name, rather than have a signature (like yours).
I earned my alphabets, as I'm sure you earned yours (MS-MVP).

The MS-MVP is an award earned by myself (and others) due to participation in
these newsgroups (Microsoft)... Due to that fact, I chose to post that in
my signature.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpawardintro

Of the tests/initials/etc I have taken/earned - I list none of them here -
as to be honest - I have found many of them to be non-representative of what
someone may/may not know. ;-)

Tried this?

Recovery Console --> bootcfg /list --> bootcfg /rebuild --> Add the Windows
install it finds (if it does) --> the load identifier is likely "Microsoft
Windows XP Professional" or "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" --> the Load
options will be /fastdetect ...

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html




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