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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".
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".