Kozmyk

Heh heh ... Does humour belong in PC Problem Solving ? I've been taking "Knight Rider" to refer to the green loading bar. I could be wrong of course. ;)

I had this problem with my system, hanging on crcdisk.sys Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R Intel E7300 Radeon HD4850 4GB RAM Vista Home Premium 32bit I drove me crazy. I tried ALL of the above to try and fix it ... nothing I even bought a new HDD and an external dock to check the old HDD on my laptop. Old disk checked out OK. I started a new Vista install n the new HDD.... still hung on crcdisk.sys Eventually, in desperation, I tried reflashing the BIOS, even though this mobo has a dual BIOS system and SHOULD be protected from BIOS corruption. IT WORKED!!! So I put the old HDD back in. sometimes it hiccups on bootup and I have to restart but it does work.I wouldn't be surprised if there are a couple of corrupted files or links on the HDD after all the desperate attempts to get it going again. The new HDD is now a clone of the original. Acronis wouldn't work for me as it refused to see the destination disk, mounted externally, either by USB or eSATA. I used EASEUS Partition Manager to do the cloning instead. The 32bit version was a free download ... nice. Only thing left to do now is clear up this erratic starting problem. I'm hoping it's just a dodgy driver. It's a different condition to the original, seems to hang bu tI suspect it's booting but not showing on the monitor, a graphics driver perhaps. A Safe Mode then restart seems to fix it ... for now So good luck with your CRCdisk.sys. Maybe try a BIOS flash if you're stuck. It worked for me ;^)