STARTUP FAILURE

V

Vic

Changed a driver for a Promise Ultra 100 IDE drive controller. Decided
to try the WinXP driver instead of Promise's. Upon boot I saw a STOP
error and the PC failed to boot (BSOD). Tried booting with SAFE mode
but to no avail; same BSOD.

Decided to try the Boot to last successful .... it worked!

My question:
How else could I have rectified the BAD XP driver seeing even SAFE mode
failed to get me to a desktop to rollback the driver?

TIA
Vic
 
R

Rich Barry

Vic, you could move the Ribbon Cable to the Primary or Secondary IDE
Controller on
the motherboard. That would bypass the need for Promise Drivers. Once XP
loads then
you can reinstall or roll back the Promise Driver.
 
V

Vic

Hi Rich

I understand what you offered for advise and agree that could work
(thanks!). Was looking for more of a "software" solution though. For
example, with Win98 you could choose a Y/N prompt for each driver during
boot, thus have ability to choose NOT to load the XP HD driver(s).
Didn't see that option with XP. Did I miss it?

Also, I keep regular registry backups stored on the same NTFS partition
as XP (ERU-NT). The executable to restore a previous backup does not
require Windows to be operating, it can restore even from a DOS prompt.
Problem is, couldn't figure how to access the partition files with
Windows not booting!

Any ideas how to access files when Windows gives a BSOD?

Thanks again
Vic
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G

Gerry

Vic

Using a Windows XP CD or boot disk or the usual routes.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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