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. Since you cant do it from your system try putting your hard drive into another comp and just back up the drive so if all else fails you still have your data.
Two days ago I too started getting this rather irritating problem, which I have yet to resolve. Process Monitor was the next step, and it did not reveal that any task or process was repeating at a level that could cause such a problem. At this point I was pretty convinced it was a genuine hardware issue, so I shut down, removed all hardware except for the CPU, 1 stick of RAM, keyboard, mouse and the primary hard drive.
This solved the problem, so I put the hardware back in piece by piece to see if I could tell which one it was. Turned out to be the secondary hard drive, which while working in the OS was causing this resource hogging on the CPU. Later on, someone in my house decided to watch a film that was stored on this hard drive, and this crashed the computer.
At this point, I had the same symptoms that a lot of you guys seem to be having, I. Any of the safe mode options resulted in it stopping at crcdisk. I managed to get around it by booting up with the hard drive connected to power but not the SATA data cable, then connecting the data cable once within windows at this point I figured I had nothing to lose.
Telling device manager to scan for any hardware changes did indeed show up the hard drive, interestingly without the Hardware Interrupts. Having said that, the hard drive feels different to the primary one which is a nice continuous slight vibration in that every now and then it seems to 'jolt', which suggests to me that the hard drive is in the process of failing.
I am currently in the process of pulling all my data off it, once that is done, I've created a little batch file to repeatedly ChkDsk and Format it over and over. In this way I intend to stress test it and see if there's actually any problems with it , so I'll post back once that's been running for a decent amount of time. I'd like to share a simple solution with you. Based on what I've read in this posts and how many topics there are about "crcdisk" against the " regback ", following might become useful for many.
Or not. Anyway, lately I've been in exact situation, where I can't boot even using Safe Mode and booting gets stuck soon after crcdidk. I tried repairing and claim was that problem got fixed system config was corrupt or something like that. However, problem wasn't gone as I still couldn't boot. Problem itself had appeared suddenly -- few time.
All I might be doing was to read an article from net with a webbrowser, without programs accessing harddisks too frequently or anything overloading the system resources, neither anything similar. Still, suddenly harddisks became unresponsive and system might or might not jam totally.
After restart I couldn't boot, because system files were said to be missing. At first time I reinstalled the Windows Vista, but as its a bit lengthy process, I thought that there must be shortcut of some sort. And there was. And still is. Finally I have an answer to this problem. I just had this exact problem with dell Inspiron I applied all the tricks mentioned on this forum, nothing fixed it. Now I need to install the right driver and make it work without loosing my wireless connection.
Vista home basic With SP2. After trying everything else, this is what worked for me. Windows booted to a black screen with pointer, apparently locking up on crcdisk.
Could not access profile's desktop or change any settings. Installed Avast! Fixed it. I rebooted his Toshiba with a Fujitsu Recovery Disc, which worked. I had to update a few drivers, but everything seems to be working fine. So, I had the same "crcdisk.
I bought a desktop from Gateway the did NOT include a recovery disk. After reading this thread I thought I needed that recovery disk and I was correct. This order is determined in the "boot setup". To change that order of boot devices I am prompted at boot to "F2" and a change boot order menue is presented.
When promted hit "next" until you see the choice to "Repair Computer" and select it. After about 45 seconds I receive a notice that "problem was found" and asked if I wanted to continue with "repair", I selected yes.
I was then prompted with a second notice that "repair was sucessful and system is rebooting". Hoping that I realy did correct the problem I selected ""Normal Boot".
All in all it took less than 50 minutes to solve the problem I have no idea but suspect that a bad cluster was on my Hard Drive and the "crcdisk" checking during a normal boot could not get past it.
I solved this problem using Hirens Boot CD to. I made a chkdisk and the restarted an everithing is OK. Start from a Vista boot CD and tried 'Repair your computer' - doesn't find the operating system which means System Restore is not an option.
As a last resort I tried using the 'Install windows' so i could get to the drive formatting screen but i get the message 'Please supply drivers'. It's a sealed PC which i can't open as it's under a 5 year warranty so i can't touch the hard disk. Ive been having similar problems to everyone above me Here is my problem from beginning to end First when I received my friends computer he said he had a virus on it, so i opened it up looked at it, and nothing out of the ordinary seemed to be happening, so i just proceeded to start with the basics, and it needed a Vista update SP1 which i thought to myself wow thats old why is it just now finding that update I now manually restart the laptop and plan to go back to the Repair your Computer option, press enter and it now goes to the Blue Screen of Death saying I should try to boot to safe mode, Since I'm unable to go to Safe Mode due to the freeze at crcdisk.
I had this same problem but finally got windows to load. I don't have a recovery CD, or other hard drives to boot up from, so was looking for a no-additional-supplies solution. I started following the instructions from Duncandogster.
Once I changed it to IDE, I tried to boot up and I got a little farther in the boot up process, then it asked if I wanted to start windows normally or do the repair option. I chose the Repair and it ran for about 10 minutes, and then restarted, and I still had the original problem… couldn't get past the loading bar. This time it said something about "checking disks" and it finally booted up all the way to Windows. I'm backing up all my files and never trusting MS again.
My windows stops loading at the bar with " C Microsoft Corporation. Also tried a Windows 7 disk to see if I could format the HDD and it froze when the coloured balls come together to show the windows sign.
I have to say, this was the last thing I was willing to do. I actually had a WinPE disk setup and off loaded the entire hard drive. Then, I said, well, I ought to try it. It happened to a friend's computer after a couple of updates. So, it is worth a try if you have off loaded your files and have nothing to lose. I get as far as "crcdisk. The best way to sort out this problem is by re-installing windows any version to resolve any problems there are on the machine.
I had this same problem and could not boot into windows. I tried alot of the software fixes mentioned here, but nothing worked. I found out that it was a corrupted sector on my hdd. I found this out by taking the disk out of my notebook and hooking it up to a usb hdd adapter and plugging it into my good desktop.
I ran the drive manufacturers hard drive utility in my case Western Digital Lifeguard and it found many non-repairable errors. I was able to retrieve alot of my data, and I guess that some of the boot info was on a corrupted sector. I bought a new hdd and reinstalled windows, now all is good. So, see if some of the fixes mentioned here work for you and, if so, good. But don't forget that it may be a harddrive or hardware error and you would have no choice other than to salvage your data and replace the drive.
SYS problem just recently on a Vista 64b. SYS files, and the active one was not the most recent one ish. Can anyone help me find such a disk? Also, trying the F8 and debugging mode solution attempt described above Man, misery loves company!
Windows Vista truly stinks! This latest big automatic update did mine in. All I figured out so far is how to recover some of my files from the laptop. I have a SATA hardrive on a dell inspiron I am able to easily remove the hard drive from the side of the case. I bought a "Rmovable hard disk box" on ebay, and stuck my drive in it.
I then hooked up the box to another computer you have to use both big usb connectors on the computer! I was able to copy my Itunes file onto the new computer, for instance. Now, about the old fried laptop I am waiting for a new hard drive to show up in the mail and I will reinstall the dell system disks on it, and hope that resurects it! Office Office Exchange Server.
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For compatibility of 3rd party applications, use the ACT forum. Sign in to vote. Anyone have any suggestions? Thursday, February 14, AM. I've had the same issue for two days now. I hope this helps other people who are still running into the same problem.
Thursday, October 14, PM. Proposed as answer by larrylegarde Wednesday, October 7, PM. Thursday, February 14, PM. The problem seems to be caused by the following file: crcdisk. You can search for the error online: [BSOD] crcdisk. In the majority of cases, you will encounter crcdisk. In other cases, software corruption caused by a malware infection can lead to crcdisk.
Therefore, it's critical to make sure your anti-virus is kept up-to-date and scanning regularly. That way, it's very easy to restore your system in the unfortunate event you encounter a crcdisk. If you're encountering one of the error messages above, follow these troubleshooting steps to resolve your crcdisk. These troubleshooting steps are listed in the recommended order of execution.
System File Checker is a utility included with every Windows version that allows you scan and restore corrupted system files. Use the SFC tool to fix missing or corrupt crcdisk. When the first two steps haven't solved your issue, it might be a good idea to run Windows Update. Many crcdisk. To run Windows Update, please follow these easy steps:. If Windows Update failed to resolve the crcdisk.
Please note that this final step is recommended for advanced PC users only. If none of the previous three troubleshooting steps have resolved your issue, you can try a more aggressive approach Note: Not recommended for amateur PC users by downloading and replacing your appropriate crcdisk. Please follow the steps below to download and properly replace you file:.
If this final step has failed and you're still encountering the error, you're only remaining option is to do a clean installation of Windows 7. To avoid data loss, you must be sure that you have backed-up all of your important documents, pictures, software installers, and other personal data before beginning the process. If you are not currently backing up your data, you need to do so immediately.
Microsoft typically does not release Windows SYS files for download because they are bundled together inside of a software installer. The installer's task is to ensure that all correct verifications have been made before installing and placing crcdisk. An incorrectly installed SYS file may create system instability and could cause your program or operating system to stop functioning altogether. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. SpiritX Volunteer Moderator. Hi, The Windows Update was probably incidental to this issue meaning the next major stress on the computer would likely have propagated the error.
Check with Toshiba Support, their on-line documentation, and their forums for known issues. Try Startup Repair from the Recovery Console if you have one or from a Vista disk - if you do not have a Vista disk you can borrow a friends they are not copy protected or make one.
Also your System maker will sell the physical disks cheap since you already own Windows. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This site in other languages x.
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