Windows Installer hangs at boot

[BillW50]

I have been fighting this problem for about 6 months and it is really
starting to bug me. This all happened on this one machine I am using
right now. And I ran Ubunbu Live from a SD card (flash drive) and
Windows XP would no longer boot. I fixed it by running BartPE from flash
and restoring the registry with ERUNT. I couldn't believe Ubunbu would
do this, so I repeated it two more times with the same results. Too
scared to try this on my other computers, so I can't tell you what
happens there.

Although I have a lingering side effect. As sometimes Windows boots and
just the background shows, no Taskbar, and a window saying Windows
Installer. Although nothing happens. You can leave it for hours and
nothing else happens. And you can't do anything.

I use a US Robotics utility which I love called iBand. You can add it to
your Taskbar by the Toolbar option. You can drag it off of the Taskbar
as well. It is the best utility I have found for monitoring your
bandwidth traffic (later I found out it is free too). Well after the
Ubunbu ordeal, iBand is causing the Windows Installer hang. As if I
rename the iBand.dll to something else, Windows boots perfectly. Or I
remember to close this Toolbar when I shutdown, it also boots perfectly.

Anybody have any idea how to fix this problem? TIA

 

[JS]

One thing you could try is to create an image backup
and restore the image to another drive and see if booting
from the other drive fixes it, its a long shot but it takes the
hard drive out of the equation.

 

[BillW50]

In JS typed on Wed, 13 May 2009 08:58:39 -0400:

One thing you could try is to create an image backup
and restore the image to another drive and see if booting
from the other drive fixes it, its a long shot but it takes the
hard drive out of the equation.

Greetings JS! Well it is on a SSD drive (8GB) and it is removable. But
it still has the warrantee sticker on the trap door that I don't want to
remove. I got another EeePC the same model also with the sticker still
attached that I need to send in for warrantee repair because you can't
flash the BIOS and it won't detect the SSD.

I got three other EeePCs, but they have the SSD soldered on the
motherboard and are only 4GB anyway. And they are pretty much have all
of the same programs installed on them. Same is true of my Gateway
MX6124, which I have two of them too. All of them work fine and has
iBand running except for this one EeePC that had booted Ubuntu.

 

[BillW50]

In BillW50 typed on Wed, 13 May 2009 07:36:57 -0500:

I have been fighting this problem for about 6 months and it is really
starting to bug me. This all happened on this one machine I am using
right now. And I ran Ubunbu Live from a SD card (flash drive) and
Windows XP would no longer boot. I fixed it by running BartPE from
flash and restoring the registry with ERUNT. I couldn't believe
Ubunbu would do this, so I repeated it two more times with the same
results. Too scared to try this on my other computers, so I can't
tell you what happens there.

Although I have a lingering side effect. As sometimes Windows boots
and just the background shows, no Taskbar, and a window saying Windows
Installer. Although nothing happens. You can leave it for hours and
nothing else happens. And you can't do anything.

I use a US Robotics utility which I love called iBand. You can add it
to your Taskbar by the Toolbar option. You can drag it off of the
Taskbar as well. It is the best utility I have found for monitoring
your bandwidth traffic (later I found out it is free too). Well after
the Ubunbu ordeal, iBand is causing the Windows Installer hang. As if
I rename the iBand.dll to something else, Windows boots perfectly. Or
I remember to close this Toolbar when I shutdown, it also boots
perfectly.
Anybody have any idea how to fix this problem? TIA

Well US Robotics apparently now has come out with a newer version of
iBand called v1.30. The one I was using was 1.27. Which was the latest
one until just recently. And the problem disappeared for now, oddly
enough with v1.30.

http://www.usrobotics.com/support/s-software.asp

 

[JS]

Thanks for taking the time to provide the feedback.