XP Pro dual boot freeze/CRCDISK.SYS

[stuart.harris]

I've read various articles on the internet with many people having a
seemingly unpredictable and long-winded to fix issue with booting
Vista or XP.

I have Vista HP on one partition and XP MCE on another, all were
working fine I could dual boot between them like nobodies business for
around 5 months, untill one day the boot into XP just froze, didn't
even bring up the splash screen. On trying to boot in safe mode (with
network, command prompt, etc) it froze at CRCDISK.SYS.

I managed to repair the problem by re-installing XP MCE (Repair didn't
work), then 'repairing' Vista to get the boot menu back, etc.

All was kosha once more...two weeks later AGGGH, it's happening again,
freezing when booting into XP, fine with Vista.

Are there any 'official' solutions for this ongoing problem? I've read
instances of a Vista Update causes it, but once I repaired the issue
by re-installing XP no updates were installed in Vista other than a
Windows Defender update!

Please help, this is doing my nut and can't be bothered with re-
installing XP every couple of weeks! (

Cheers.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've read various articles on the internet with many people having a
seemingly unpredictable and long-winded to fix issue with booting
Vista or XP.

I have Vista HP on one partition and XP MCE on another, all were
working fine I could dual boot between them like nobodies business for
around 5 months, untill one day the boot into XP just froze, didn't
even bring up the splash screen. On trying to boot in safe mode (with
network, command prompt, etc) it froze at CRCDISK.SYS.

I managed to repair the problem by re-installing XP MCE (Repair didn't
work), then 'repairing' Vista to get the boot menu back, etc.

All was kosha once more...two weeks later AGGGH, it's happening again,
freezing when booting into XP, fine with Vista.

Are there any 'official' solutions for this ongoing problem? I've read
instances of a Vista Update causes it, but once I repaired the issue
by re-installing XP no updates were installed in Vista other than a
Windows Defender update!

Please help, this is doing my nut and can't be bothered with re-
installing XP every couple of weeks! (

Cheers.

CRC stands for "Cyclic Redundancy Check". CRC errors
invariably indicate an inability to read data from the
current medium. I suggest you download and run the
disk checking tool that your disk manufacturer provides
at his home site.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941649

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941649

Vista specific isn't it?

 

[Tom Ferguson]

Yes.

Vista specific isn't it?

 

[Stoo]

I performed a Seagate full 'advanced' hard disk scan and no problems
were found, will give that Microsoft 'patch' a go and report my
findings.

Cheers.