Windows 7 Startup Loop

Kaiju

Kaiju

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I had a BSOD and now I can't get past the startup repair. It's worth noting i've had Windows 7 32-bit Ultimate running fine since it's retail release with no hiccups.

I've tried safe mode, repairing from the Windows 7 disk. I've put the drive in an external drive and everything still seems there. I've tried bootrec /fixmbr and /fixboot.

Any ideas on how to save my programs and settings before I reformat.
 
Was able to get into my C: properties via the system restore, advanced tab. Now running chkdsk to see if that can do anything.
 
chkdsk finished with no problems.

Unfortunately I didn't take note of the BSOD.

This is annoying the hell outta me. All the files are there on the C: drive, no faults, no errors.

Yet I can't get to the desktop because Windows insists I have a startup problem. WTF!

I don't think a backup image will do any good as it will probably bring about the same darn problem.
 
Found this...

"The trouble is the Startup repair tool was written by a high school idiot. Instead of running and coming up without a recovery and stopping, it loops. How dumb is that? so the user flounders.

In the end in EACH case, the only solution for repair that I can find is flat reinstall. Wipe out and loose all."

LOL, typical.
 
Come to think of it Windows 7 did an update for IE (I don't even use the fully star out swearies thing!), but I just updated it anyway. The BSOD happened before I could restart and verify the update was successfully installed. That's the ONLY thing I can think of that might of caused this.
 
Now trying a Windows 7 upgrade from the CD. Apparently this should keep everything intact.

edit: Tried to upgrade, but it just told me I need to take the disc out, restart the computer and try it once Windows has started.

Perfect, thank you M$ for this piece of turd.
 
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Oh, lightbulb.

I just ran bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled No

Restarted and it came to the black screen stating the file idoxvtc.sys is corrupt or missing in the System32, drivers directory.

Will take out the OS drive, stick it in an external USB caddy and manually replace the file again. See if that works.
 
I did it!

I just renamed the idoxvtc.sys file to idoxvtc.bak (using the XP guide I linked previously) and restarted. Voila!

The file was 86MB too, probably a windows update as I couldn't find it after a quick search in the Install.wim file from the Windows 7 CD.

Happy days, although 2 hours of my life down the pan. 3.46AM here in Hong Kong.

Let me know if you need a hand.
 
Excellent, we got there in the end. :)

I can't find anything about the idoxvtc.sys file on the net, so have no ideas. I'm back into Windows though and everything has been fine for the last 10 minutes.

Case closed.

edit: I got the bytes mixed up, it's only 841kb. My bad.
 
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