HELP!! More crcdisk.sys problems

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Vista is not booting up past the Sign In/Welcome screen. It lets me type in
my password and then just hangs with the perpetually spinning busy-circle.

I've tried booting in safe mode and it goes through the scrolling of loading
files and always gets stuck on the crcdisk.sys file.

Upon searching here and elsewhere I see many questions about this, but none
of the very few posted "fixes" has worked for me.

This is new Gateway system which came with Vista Ultimate pre-installed. The
system had been working great until I decided I wanted to add a Lightscribe
capable DVD/CD writer = Samsung SH-S183L SATA model. My 1st thougth was to
just pull the drive out of the sytem, but even upon removing the drive the
system still will not boot.

I have sent this same question to Gateway and Samsung with no reply yet so
any help from here will be GREATLY appreciated.

 

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I came across this problem this morning, I took out the disk and connected it
to a XP machine and did a chkdsk /f which resolved the problem. Just wanted
to share this for those who come accross this problem, I see some people went
ahead with a low level format and reinstall. Try this one first before you
venture down that path