Hi
I know I’m not first, but my xp pro won’t boot in any mode and hangs on aswRvrt.sys. I tried replacing that with one from a known working machine, to no avail. I’ve got Ubuntu 13.10 on a USB so I can interrogate the disk if that helps.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Geoff
Not sure if I should put this in the virus area?? Because idk if it is or not???
Could you go here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0 scroll down to If you cannot Boot the computer and attach the log here
I’m on it now.
Okay tried two CD burns and two optical drives on non-booting machine, and it gets to the end of the progress bars on Reatogo and then hangs - drive stops spinning, nothing happens. I can boot into Ubuntu okay from either drive, so I don’t suspect them, and CDs are decent Verbatims which don’t usually cause a problem.
Any suggestions?
To me that would suggest you may have a hard drive problem or an MFT problem
Does the disc you have enable to run a chkdsk on the C drive
Not sure, Ill take a look
Not getting very far here. I decided to go back to making another Reatogo disc, using a Vista laptop I had kicking about. After the usual nonsense that Vista provides in spades, I made another disc but that also hung after “starting Reatogo-X-PE” and the CD span down. I haven’t found a way yet of running chkdsk, and now the bios is giving me a problem and I can’t get it to boot from CD, however many times I change the boot order - the CD drives are both parenthesised, indicating, to me, a HW glitch? I should probably clear down??
Okay I managed to get past that and booted into ubuntu from cd. Ran a disc check from there, but it didn’t find anything.
So the I put the disc on a usb-sata converter thing that I had kicking about, and ran chkdsk on it - it found errors and then reached a point where the message was 'insufficient disc space to correct errors in index $ S11 of file 9.
Currently running Malwarebytes on it. Bit slow because USB!
You will need to clear some disc space to enable chkdsk to complete properly, once it has completed a normal boot should be available
But there’s about 20 Gb spare on a 160 Gb disc - surely enough???
In that case you may need to run chkdsk several times
Okay. I’ll let MWB finish first - it’s been rolling for 3.5 hours…
And, in case I forget to say it - thanks very much for your time and help on this, it really is very much appreciated.
No problem, but the thing to bear in mind is that windows stops on the last successfully loaded driver not the one with the problem
Thanks - good point. So how to know what’s next on the list? Is it just alpha through the drivers dir? If so, that might allow me to sub in some drivers from this machine (currently working okay, touch wood!) and see if that gets past the hitch. Does that make sense?
Unfortunately it works on a priority and requirement system and not alphabetical. So as to what the next driver is will depend on the system setup and hardware. I.e. it could be any one of them
I feared that was likely.
Oh well, once MWB finishes, I’ll run it through chkdsk a couple more times and report back.
Thanks again.
okay, MWB found nothing, as expected. I ran chdsk /f a couple of times, until no more errors were found (the space issue was no longer a problem). I then reconnected and booted into safe mode… and it stopped in the same place.
Any idea what I could do next? I’m feeling fairly stumped :\
Thanks for any help
OK lets try a USB boot
Download Peazip to the desktop
Run and install the programme
As it installs this page will show, deselect the AVG ticks
Press decline and it will then install cleanly
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/peazip.jpg
Download the following files to the desktop … Right click the links and select save as…then select desktop
Right click OTLPE on your desktop and select …Open as archive
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/Unzup%20archive.png
Select OTLPE standard
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/select%20archive.PNG
Click Extract, ensure that desktop is selected
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/extract%20archive.PNG
Insert the USB stick Then run Rufus
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/rufus.JPG
Select the ISO file on the desktop via the ISO icon.
Press Start Burn
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/RufusISO.JPG
Once the USB has burnt then
[*]Download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool and save it to the flash drive.
[*]Reboot your system using the boot USB you just created.
Note : If you do not know how to set your computer to boot from USB follow the steps here
[]As the Programme needs to detect your hardware and load the operating system, I would recommend a nice cup of tea whilst it loads 
[]Your system should now display a Reatogo desktop.
[]Locate the flash drive and run FSRT
[]The tool will start to run.
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee362/Essexboy3/Farbar/FRST2.gif
[*]When the tool opens click Yes to disclaimer.
[*]Press Scan button.
[*]It will make a log (FRST.txt) on the flash drive. Please copy and paste it to your reply.
Okay, made up the USB with Reatogo, but it wouldn’t boot from it. Tried Ubuntu stick - all fine. Went back and ran rufus again and this time didn’t copy over FRST, just to check. Same result - it won’t boot at all - I just get the ‘Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key’
This is definitely a jinxy one …
Got any more ideas? Sorry if I’m a PITA.
OK lets try XPud for a restore point … This is a Linux based system
Download http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/unetbootin-xpud-windows-latest.exe & http://noahdfear.net/downloads/bootable/xPUD/xpud-0.9.2.iso to the desktop of your clean computer
[*]Insert your USB drive
[*]Press Start > My Computer > right click your USB drive > choose Format > Quick format
[*]Double click the unetbootin-xpud-windows-387.exe that you just downloaded
[*]Press Run then OK
[*]Select the DiskImage option then click the browse button located on the right side of the textbox field.
[*]Browse to and select the xpud-0.9.2.iso file you downloaded
[]Verify the correct drive letter is selected for your USB device then click OK
[]It will install a little bootable OS on your USB device
[*]Once the files have been written to the device you will be prompted to reboot ~ do not reboot and instead just Exit the UNetbootin interface
Download http://noahdfear.net/downloads/rst.sh to the USB drive
[*]Boot the Sick computer to xPUD
[*]Press File
[*]Expand mnt
[*]Expand your USB (sdb1)
[*]Confirm that you see rst.sh that you downloaded there
[*]Press Tool at the top
[*]Choose Open Terminal
[*]Type bash rst.sh
[*]Press Enter
[*]After it has finished a report will be located in the USB drive (sdb1) named enum.log
[]Plug that USB back into the clean computer and open it
[]Then post the contents here