Blocage crcdisk.sys vista

She shut it down and tried to turn it back on. It won't reboot, won't open a command prompt; and when I try to boot in safe mode, it seems to get stuck at this crcdisk. I can't get the notebook to boot from the recovery DVD. I even tried screwing around with the BIOS settings, all to no avail. I've looked for help in different forums, but so far I've met nothing but fail. How to use the Bootrec. That was all I needed to do. Problem was withoout the original Vista install disk I could not get in to erase them.

Hope you don't mean you are not going to do any more updates. You still want them. Set for notices only and then install manually. I had problem once with the auto update where I was typing when a message flashed on the screen that the machine was going to restart due to a new update.

I was typing and obiously gave the go ahead. When it came back up some items would not work. I had to restore to the previous set point. But you will need to boot with another drive. I had to buy a 2nd hard drive and put Vista on it. Now I put a complete image of Vista and all my programs on the 2nd hard drive.

Once I got the new drive booted I plugged the old one into the USB port and was able to copy all my files. Also was able to erase those files suggested by MS and it then was capable of booting too. I just did it and this is one of the first ones up:. Then you should be able to hook that hard drive to a USP port on your XP machine and get access to the files:.

Microsoft said to delete the following files. They were not all on my drive but that fixed the problem. Apparently there are multiple problems that can result in the crcdisk error. If you can get a prompt the restore will usually cure the problem. However, when like me and others who could not get a prompt something else is causing the problem. With mine I could not boot or get a prompt even when that drive was mounted but not being used for booting.

I had to remove it from the system to get the alternate hard drive to boot. Deleting or renaming the files is worth a try. It worked for me but I could not get a dos prompt.

I had to get in by booting on a different machine and using the USB to hard drive device. Use the cd change directory command. Panik3r: You don't have a crcdisk problem.

Maybe just need to clean up you disk but obviously 70G is more than enough to operate. I can't think of anything to do but try again. Maybe do a system restore. Are you getting automatic updates? I prefer the setting of having them notify me when an update is available. I always install it as soon as possible. The default is to install imediatly.

I had one come in while I was typing something and suddenly a message flashed that the a new update had been installed and to do something to shut the machine down. I was typing and obviously hit the key for go ahead and it dumped my work. Ok, so is there one and final solution to this problem? We've identified everyone has this issue Original poster Leif DIsclaimer: I am not a Microsoft Windows professional, rather an advanced user faced with an extremely frustrating challenge.

After my post in February, I went on to spend dozens of hours of time working on finding a solution to the specific challenge I was havng and a resolution to the problem, more broadly. My ramblings on the subject are as follows:. As we all know, the system hangs upon startup at the crcdisk. According to various web sites, the crcdisk. The implication regarding this driver is that the system is performing a verficiation of the disk subsystem to ensure that it is in working order before it will continue and finalize the boot process.

The failure of this driver to complete the process implies that there is a physical or logical error that cannot be repaired or even reported on and thus halts the entire process. Since the error is unspecific and there does not seem to be more detailed information on the specific routines performed by this driver, I cannot speculate on the precise challenge that this driver seems to be encountering when it hangs.

I have read of various attempts to solve the problem through various efforts and my comments on the two most common attempts are as follows:. The most common resolution has been to go to a valid "restore point" that has hopefully been created. Since I had no restore point created, I was not able to test this theory. My suspicion is that this might be succesful in allowing the user to access the drive and data again, but it might only be a temporary fix.

The second most common resolution was to boot to a command prompt using a recovery CD or by creating an emergency recovery CD with a Linux kernel and then attempt to rename various device drivers and restore the original device drivers loaded with the system. I did attempt this process and it was not successful. I suspect that in a minor subset of folks who experience this problem, there could have been a driver conflict that was casuing the crcdisk. I did end up taking both laptops to the manufacturer under warranty for diagnostic and repair.

When I presented both latops, they performed a manufacturer diagnostic routine that indicated a failed hard drive and controller card on both systems. Further, the Sony employee commented that he has seen many of these failures in the last many months. Important part here: I am reasonably certain that in most cases, there is an underlying defect in hardware that must be corrected before a truly successful resolution can be applied.

Given the nature of the driver that is hanging and my subsequent experience with the diagnostic routines applied by the manufacturer, I would suspect that both of those resolutions are temporary and the symptom presented is, in fact, indiciative of a physical failing or failed device s.

Apparently this is an extremely common occurence as there have been over views of this thread since February. So, aside from the annoyance of dealing with the repair process and the time invested, I am reasonably unscathed.

I do think that Microsoft should provide a far more detailed and expert description on the details of the driver and the symptoms that we are all experiencing. Anyone at Microsoft listening? Obviously there is more than one problem being discussed here. Obviously the crcdisk check may fail for many reasons. In my case I could not get to a command prompt.

I have had contacts with others that had the exact same problem as me. The "Dell expert" from India recommened a reformat. That was impossible because I could not even get a prompt. I was quite certain that the hard drive was still good and that all the data was still there. Apparently the crcdisk check looks at all hard drives mounted on the system.

I could not even boot from a different hard drive that drive was in the system lets say mounted as D drive. THe only way I could access the disk was with it out of the system and using a USB to hook it to a booted system.

Once I deleted those selected files it was usable again. However, many of you report being able to boot. The system restore is then the best option. I have used that a couple times to recover from a stalled system. Have you installed Service Pack 1. That is supposed to take care of many of the associated problems.

I have read where some have had problems when installing it. Panic3r, it looks to me like you have a lot of stuff running in the background that might interfer with Vista routines trying to do the same thing: Real time backup, Windows Defender, Shadow Copy, Kerberos.

You have a network? Looks like a totally different type problem that most here are discussing. So all I can pass along is that if you can't get a hard drive booted and don't want to lose the data on it, it may be possible to access it with another computer using one of those hard drive to USB port devices.

I think that a virus got in and renamed that drive c: to drive x: does anyone have any suggestions or do you kno0w what the viruse might be.

I can understand the frustration that you all feel for this problem. I had the same problem on my system and I am doing my best to find a solution without loosing any data. For now, pass the word around to NOT install service pack 1 if you have dual boot on the same drive.

I agreee that the disk is most likely good. It appears to me that the crcdisk stall can be caused by many things. You did not say if you area able to reformat the disk.

My problem casued the stall at the same point but I could not get to the disk. I had to use that USB adapter to get access to it. After installing the system I was able to load all those critical updates. It takes time but should not have taken hours as you experienced. I also loaded SP1. It too is a large update and takes quite a while. I don't think it was more than an hour. From what I have heard many of the problems have been corrected in SP1. I have managed to boot into a laptop with the above problem.

And all seems to work fine so far 2 hours with multiple boots and tweeks. The last thing that was visited was xtube on the friday night, on sunday morning boot, machine failed. I removed the the Sata hdd and using a Xp Pro machine boot with the laptop hdd as a slave. Windows ran a Chkdsk 3 stage scan immediately. Ran onother chkdsk - right click on hdd I then discovered this thread and had a read.

None of the above where there to be found. A look at the machine once in showed up that it had an expired notron internet security loaded and a "mywebsearch" toolbar.

After spending 2 fruitless hours on the phone to HP support testing the hard drive which I knew it wasn't but they wouldn't listen I decided to take matters into my own hands no I haven't made a recovery CD - its a new txea pavilion laptop running an upgrade to Ultimate. I put in the Fujitsu Siemens recovery dvd i created for my wife's vista laptop and booted from that several hundred pounds cheaper and far better by the way , and at the moment where we get past the hanging bars and vista asks whether you want to recover simply click cancel.

The laptop then spent 30 minutes "doing things" and rebooted. And now it works perfectly! I have a PS laptop. About a month ago, the same thing happened to me. Nothing fixed it. And in the process, I messed up the bootloader.

I eventually had to completely wipe my laptop back to factory settings. First I tried to fix the startup files, but it didnt' find anything, and it only looked for about 3 seconds. I tried deleting the suggested driver files again, which didn't work. I then tried rolling back to an old restore point 14 days old , which didn't work.

I then did a boot log and tried to see the last thing to load. It was luafv. I then pulled down some other guy's boot file, and I found out he loaded "drmkaud. So I renamed that. But when I reset the PC, it complained about the file system integrity, which it had not done before. So I let it try and fix it. It booted into startup fix on its own and spent about 30 minutes there this time.

I thought it was locked up, but it finally did finish it offered to let me restore early on but I cancelled out of it. After it booted up, I figured it was because I changed the drmkaud. So I restored the system back forward. But when I rebooted, it went back to black screen, and changing drmkaud.

So I went back 14 days again, and the system booted. But the first time I tried this, it definitely didn't work. So I don't know what the heck gives. It would seem that when it booted into the different startup restore mode it actually fixed something that choosing the option from the disk repair menu didn't fix. But the problem is somehow dependent on a windows update of some sort. I'm disabling updates for now, because I know this problem is not solved.

I was listening to music this morning, which I have never done before on this laptop. My daughter was listening to music before it locked up last time. MAYBE there is something to do with an update, the audio driver, and the windows media player, but I am not sure.

I just can't pin down the root cause of this. But it clearly isn't a hardware issue. Windows Vista doesn't like some kind of driver and is locking up after it loads luafv. It didn't help or hurt as far as I can tell although the disk repair option that seemed to help came up the second boot attempt afterwards. I wish I could help you guys so I could help myself. I don't like knowing that my laptop can lock up at any time. I wish MS would take this seriously and fix Vista so it would at least tell what's wrong rather than just locking up, black screening and then rebooting.

It's extremely frustrating, and it's definitely not going to go away considering that this is the second time it's happened to me already. Actually, it's the identical symptoms. In both cases, my system booted up part way, and then it went to a black screen with just the mouse cursor. After a while, the system reboots itself, and it does it over and over and over. So the symptoms are the same, BUT, I don't think the cause of most of the problems here are the same. SYS as the last thing to load, it isn't.

INF" followed by a "compleded load" or something so you could actually see what file is hanging the system? Wouldn't that be nice? But anyway, the reason I came back here to repost is I have now rebuilt my system back to exactly the way it was before it hung up, and it isn't hanging up which I suspected would be the case.

I was playing an MP3 in the windows media player, and I paused it. Later, my system went to sleep. When it tried to wake up, it was unable to complete coming out of sleep mode and went into the perpetual bootup loop forcing me to restore my system.

But even then, it's unclear why a straight up application of the 14 day old restore point didn't fix my system. It required that and a deeper system repair that I couldn't get from accessing it through what basically amounts to a Windows Vista startup disk which Toshiba has placed on the system and made available through the bootloader.

And when I tried to roll the system back forward after it recovered using the restore points, the problem came back. When I went backwards, I was able to use it again. Somehow, the problem was already in place before the last restore point. If MS could change the bootlogging, or at least give some better indication on what the problem is besides a black screen of death, that would be a big help. This problem has to eventually be fixed.

I've never seen Windows XP show this type of problem. And I don't believe this is a hardware issue. I am a hardware engineer, and I can't count the number of times software guys have come to me complaining about my hardware only to find that at the end of the day, it's a code bug. They love to think it's flaky hardware because it's the easy fix.

But so far the evidence does not point to a hardware problem. Hardware problems are generally thermal or mechanical. It is unlikely it's either here. I have been in the Philippines for the last two months, and I am not using the air conditioning during working hours. And the day this died was not unusually hot or humid not by Philippine standards anyway. Beyond that, the problem only responds to software type fixes. In the first case, I tried to restore the system for four days before I gave up and wiped it.

The reason I did that was because in order to restore it, I had to have my children load up the restore disks in my DVD drive at home in the states. I then downloaded the disks one by one to the Philippines and burned them here before I could recover the laptop. The amount of inconvenience and aggravation involved here is difficult to overemphasize.

Therefore, I would really like to see the problem get addressed. There are tons of other posts on these same symptoms all over the Internet. It's a common Windows Vista problem.

But of course as an engineer, I can completely understand how hard it is to isolate. MS needs a failing system before they are going to get this one. However, the logging fix seems like a no-brainer to me that would be a big help in debugging not just this problem and should be done. I may have found a solution to the problem.

I am having the same problem with my Dell Inspiron I formatted like 4 times and couldn't get it to work. So I removed a stick of ram.. Still didn't work. So then I formatted again, and heard stuff about raid drivers. When I inserted my Windows Vista disc. It brought me up to a menu asking me what to do with my hard drive. The disc looks Grayish looking.. Incase you may want to look for it.

I then came up to a menu saying it found 1 Item on the list. I loaded that driver, some AHCI thingy. I then deleted all partitions.. Then I added 1 partition and then clicked Format. After it was done.. I went through the Vista installation!

I didn't get a Blue Screen of Death when it was saying "Windows is preparing to start for its first time. Vista is as good as new! This is my first post.. I don't know if I'm doing this right.

But, I really do hope this works for you guys, Like it did me. Cya Later! EDIT : For all you people out there that are having the same problem.

Specify if you have ever installed XP before.. My mom did not like Vista.. I installed XP.. But The above solution may fix it for you.. You are probably not inserting the driver disc and getting the correct Hard Drive. Rich, What do you mean crcdisk stalled? When I installed Vista, It installed fine. The only time I had a problem with crcdisk was when it was preparing to boot my operating system. The Vista disc should work fine..

If not then, well, I don't know. May just have to do some more experiments. I left Vista in the Cd-Rom and booted the laptop up. It then detected the CD and booted off of it. Make sure it tries to boot off of the Vista disc, I had no problems with that. If you are having the problem booting a simple disc, then your problem has gone deeper than just a bad hard drive.

Mainstream support continues until , while extended support is not due to end until April Before you do anything and possibly loose your data just do a backup. So I reinstalled Vista and downloaded the Toshiba drivers from their website. One by one I started installing the drivers. Until I got to the driver for a flash media card reader front of laptop.

It froze up during the install. So I rolled that change back using Windows System Restore and then continued with all of the other drivers. No problems. I tried the flash media driver one more time just to be sure, and sure enough it failed again.

Predictability is key in diagnosing computer problems. So now I knew that the flash media card reader was probably bad, and so when the drivers were applied it froze the system. So, now that I have successfully ruled out ANY hope of fixing this, I'll sit back and wait for some magical genius to offer me a realistic solution and I don't mean my solution of throwing it through the window.

How to use the Bootrec. Windows Vista or Windows 7 no longer starts, and the Startup Repair tool does not fix the problem Make sure no USB drives are plugged in while you attemp to fix this issue. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Here is my problem: Problem 1: When first loading my computer, the screen pops up with the little scrolling bar across the bottom of the black screen when Windows is trying to load, but the computer either goes to a BLUE error screen or it restarts itself.