Help with Windows XP booting to black screen (aswrvrt.sys)
Go to this thread http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
Scroll down to If you cannot Boot the computer
Follow the instructions there
Hi, i have the same problem. XP system blue screen issue. But is there a way to do this using a bootable flash drive instead of a CD 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 attach it to your reply.
I made the flash drive, booted from it. It goes through the ‘Starting Reatogo X’ sequence, the bar becomes white ( complete), then black screen, then windows xp loading screen and blue screen of death again. Did i do something wrong?
btw, i also tried to creat XPUD on the affected computer, but that also did not work. Got a “bootmgr is missing” error.
I AM able to load an Ubuntu desktop. Can i do something there?
You need to run a chkdsk to rest the bootmgr unfortunately as far as I know that cannot be done from a Linux distro.
Do you have the xp recovery console ?
thank you for your advice.
i got XPUD up and ran rst:
25.8M Dec 17 15:50 /mnt/sda1/WINDOWS/system32/config/software
5.0M Dec 17 15:50 /mnt/sda1/WINDOWS/system32/config/system
25.5M Dec 17 15:23 /sda1/~/RP1/~SOFTWARE
4.8M Dec 17 15:23 /sda1/~/RP1/~SYSTEM
xp recovery cd may be corrupted. when it starts, it always gets hung up on corrupted files.
Did going back to a restore point work ?
how can I do that?
i had tried a manual fix i found online where i replaced the system32 files with those in the RP, but perhaps i did it wrong. In any case, under that setup i still got the blue screen of death. Is there another way to go about it? Those files are now back in their original places.
OK I thought you had used noadfears tool
Download http://noahdfear.net/downloads/rst.sh to the USB drive
[*]Boot the Sick computer to xPUD again
[*]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
hi,
the results of the log file are here:
25.8M Dec 17 15:50 /mnt/sda1/WINDOWS/system32/config/software
5.0M Dec 17 15:50 /mnt/sda1/WINDOWS/system32/config/system
25.5M Dec 17 15:23 /sda1/~/RP1/~SOFTWARE
4.8M Dec 17 15:23 /sda1/~/RP1/~SYSTEM
cheers
[*]Reboot your system using the xPUD bootable USB you just created.
Note : If you do not know how to set your computer to boot from USB follow the steps here
[*]Your system should now display a xPUD desktop.
[*]Select on the File icon; on the right pane click on the “mnt” folder and highlight “sdb1” - this is your USB device.
[*]Click on the “Tool” menu and select Open Terminal
http://noahdfear.net/hives.sh_files/image008.jpg
[*]In the open terminal window, type in the following
bash rst.sh -r
[*]You will be asked for the number of the Restore Point to use, type in 1 then press “Enter”.
[*]The program is finished when it say’s “Done”.
[*]Type “Exit” and uninsert your USB stick.
[]Click on the “Home” icon and then click on “Power Off”. Choose “Restart”
[]Reboot into Windows normal mode
done, but still blue screen unfortunately.
In that case unfortunately there is little that can be done, unless you can get FRST to run
okay, thank you for your help!
Do you have the recovery console installed on this system ?
Um… honestly, i don’t know, because it is not my computer. What could i look for within the linux OS in order to know? and how would i start it?
Restart the computer and repeatedly press F8 on the menu is there an option for recovery console ?
If not I can link you to an ISO