My ramblings on the subject are as follows: As we all know, the system hangs upon startup at the crcdisk. 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.
Friday, August 8, PM. Hello everyone, I can understand the frustration that you all feel for this problem. I will come back and post when I find a solution to this mess. Good luck to all and please be patient.
Wednesday, August 13, PM. I had a hard disk failure one of two drives in a stripe raid 0 configuration failed this cause me to rebuild the PC from the ground up.
I purchased a new hard drive Raptor and decided to not stripe the drives this has caused so many problems in the past with Nvidia chip sets. I loaded windos vista ultimate 32bit. Loaded all the hardware and mobo drivers. With no applications loaded except perfect image I made the fatal mistake of allowing MS to update the OS one last time.
There were 27 critical updates to install. The download went fine, did create a restore point during the install, the system attempted to reboot. It took several hours in to the night to complete the installing on shutdown the machine would not reboot. The system hangs on CRCDisk. I have read all the replies here and some hint a bad hard drive.
It seems this could be the problem for some but not likely for most as people are reporting this issue after a MS update where the system was functioning perfectly OK before the update.
This is the second time this year, that I allowed MS to update my PC and after the update I have had to reload everything. I would have thought MS would have located and corrected this problem by now. Thursday, August 14, PM. My suggestion would be to reformat and try again. Good Luck. Hello everyone, 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 Ok System is a compaq presario c laptop.
Vista home premium. A friends laptop primarily used for facebook and internet thats it. Got given the machine that would not boot. So i then thought.. Anyway, replaced HDD back into laptop and hey presto, booted into vista. Monday, August 18, PM. I too have had this problem, googled it and found this thread ref the hanging bars.
Quite by accident I found a solution which might work for some. No pc expert, and quite by accident, but all data intact and ready to roll. Good luck, and thank you Microsoft for wasting my Saturday. Saturday, August 23, PM. Sunday, September 14, AM. Toshibal, your problem is not excatly what this thread was about.
The original problem was those that could not boot at all. Only when they did a safe boot did they see that the boot sequence was stalling after loading or trying to laod the crcdisk. If you have the problem again, do a safe boot to find out where in the boot sequence you are having troubles. I don't know if disabling updates is the proper thing to do. That prevents MS from fixing your problem!! Updates from other vendors of course can be something to correct errors they have found when working with Vista.
Sunday, September 14, PM. Thursday, September 18, AM. Thanks for the information. However, I see the problem as totally different than what I think I and the others experienced. If you look back at the symptom I think you will find they are much different. We never got beyond the crcdisk. Something within the "cyclic redundancy check" was failing and it never proceeded.
Some waited for hours but it never got out of it. Nothing further got loaded. We could not even get to a dos prompt. As long as that hard drive was in the system I could not even get a CD to boot to allow me to reformat the hard drive. I had to put a new hard drive. Then when I hooked up that old drive as a secondary the system would not boot! Apparently the crrdisk looks at all mounted drives. It happened that when I stuck in the new drive it was assigned drive F.
The system recognized the drive as a secondary hard drive. But when proceeding the boot up stopped with crcdisk and never went further. I pulled that hard drive out and booted right up on the new drive. Then I used that hard drive to usb adapter. Booted up on the new drive. Plugged in the old drive to the usb port and the system saw it immediatly. I was able to go in and delete those files recommeneded by the MS tech.
Then I replaced the old drive with the new one and the system booted up immediatly. Both hard drives were then usable. So my problem was very definetly associated with those deleted files. I think that MS corrected that problem.
Perhaps in SP1. However, I think the crcdisk may be doing an extensive check of several areas on all mounted hard drives and perhaps a problem in any of those checks could result in a stall.
I would like to see some sort of counter continuously showing progress during the boot to assure me that the sequence is still in process. At times during a normal boot there are some pretty long waits between display changes.
The hard drive to dvd adapter is handy for many purposes. You can hook up the largest of hard drives to a laptop. FabianRuss how did you get access to format? With the crcdisk stall I was not able to access the hard drive at all. The Dell restore disk ran some diagnostics saying the hard drive was good but still was not able to access the drive in any way, let alone format. It was not until I installed a new hard drive and used the USP port to access the bad disk that I was able to get at it.
It is an interesting problem but have not heard anyone find a true cause or even a description of what the crcdisk. If you have an original Vista disk you might be able to access for format. Unfortunately vendors like Dell and HP only supply you with a recovery disk.
As any new system it takes time to get the unknown bugs. Some might happen because of a program being installed. MS can't be compatible with everyone. That is the job of the program vendor. Even Linux runs into that as well. That is why they publish their beta versions to let the vendors of other programs try them out.
Thursday, September 18, PM. Thursday, September 25, PM. No XP. Unfortunately no Vista disk either. Only the DELL recovery disk. My problem was solved by installing Vista on a different hard drive and booting off of it.
Even it would not boot if the old disk was mounted anywhere in the system ie: d: drive. But I was able to access the old drive using the usb to hard drive adapter. Deleted the files recommended by MS and then it too would boot. As I said before, I am pretty certain the crcdisk. Some you can still get to a DOS prompt. Others like mine I could not get any kind of boot as long as that drive was in the system.
The DELL diagnostics ran but it would not even allow me to reformat as long as the hard drive was in the system. Has been working just fine since. I loaded SP 1 and have been keeping the system up to date with the latest updates. Someone somewhere else said that SP1 fixed some of the crcdisk faults. Odd, lol! Keep that hard drive, Make it an external hard drive, Those always come in good use! Friday, September 26, PM. Sunday, October 5, PM.
I always make a backup but sometimes it might not contain the most current data. Just the problem of having to completely reload a new disk. For that reason I periodically made an image copy of my operatiang disk. Have a complete bootable disk ready to go with all programs loaded.
Another would be to keep a complete backup of the whole disk. Monday, October 6, PM. Please help me! I try many time and many days but I can't install my system for my work. Please Help me! Saturday, January 3, AM. It wouldnt boot untill I ran the reinstaller again, but its running great now. Saturday, April 11, AM. Some advice: Had this happen to a newer laptop. I'm the type of tech guy that "beats the odds" frequently, and I can fix something by trying several different strategies. Testing the hard drive would be critical also.
Haven't found a good way to test a hard drive via USB yet. Monday, May 18, AM. Saturday, June 13, PM. Hi, I just ran into the same issue. After many hours of looking for help, and just playing around, I finally figured out that on of my two 2 2 GB sticks of RAM was bad. I had just built the computer a couple of weeks ago, and it just started doing the same exact things listed here.
Then when I tried to booting from the dvd and doing a restore, I hit 0x7E. I tried different disks, resetting the CMOS, and a few other things. I then took out one stick, no luck, and then switch and took out the other. Once I switch, all issues where resolved. I applied SP2 and all the other updates. After, I tried putting the stick of RAM back. As soon as I did, I was right back to the same issue. Took it back out and booted without issue.
This may or may not be your issue, but wanted to list it here for others that might have the same problem that I did. Sunday, June 14, PM. Had the crcdisk. Contacted MS support and they ran me through a few possible fixes but none of them worked.
So I installed ubuntu and was able to access my C: drive there. I backed everything up to an external drive and am now running Ubuntu. I will attempt a full system restore with MS. Hopefully that will work and get Vista up and running again.
If not, I guess I'll just run Ubuntu. At least I saved all of my data. Microsoft needs to deal with this crcdisk. Hopefully windows 7 is better. I might just buy a Mac. I had 2 pcs crash in the same week. Thursday, June 25, PM. Boot from a WinPe or other bootable media, delete crcdisk.
Your system will come right up. Monday, August 17, PM. I had the same problems. I tried all the restore, diagnostics, etc etc etc. Dell diagnostics found no problem with the hard drive, however upon getting stuck at that same file crcdisk. There were normal "dos" files in the root and nothing else, after the Dells Vista went through an install files weren't installed but went through installation without an error message and wouldn't boot, obviously something was up with the connection to the hard drive, maybe it wasn't showing up as active or something.
For the fun of it, I threw in a Win XP install disk to find it did not find a hard drive. Voila, problem solved! Monday, September 21, AM. Saturday, October 3, PM.
Can't believe that this is still an issue. From researching, I deduce that this problem has existed since Vista came out- circa Still suspect conspiracy to "motivate" people into Win7. I believe it's time they ponied up and admited the known issue in a KB article, preferably with an autmated utility. System restore was a bust, all 5 resotre points Did the manual. Hit cancel on the question about using system restore and it copies the startup i.
I gave it a shot since I hadn't seen it mentioned, but it was no help either. Maybe others might have better luck. Since everything failed, I had to restore from a Ghost backup. Not the preffered method, especially since the likely hood of the same update causing the same problem will ocurr again.
Getting off topic a bit. I've already captured the machine with the VMware stand-alone converter with plans to install Ubuntu server x64 along with Sun Virtual Box to start a virtual Farm got files to serve, web sites to host, etc.
Much like running XP in parellels, the performance increas is astounding. Sad thing is that I have a version of Win7 running already thanks MSDN Academic Alliance and I'm seeing very little difference in function I know the major change was on demand service starting v. Same crappy engine i.
The SATA cable was jacked-up, being the root of this problem from the start. I experienced disk failures even in Linux and it wasn't until I moved all the hardware to a new case that I discovered it.
Not recommended for ametures at all though. Tuesday, October 13, PM. Tuesday, October 20, AM. I mean, just wow Thanks though, at least I can access my computer without the command prompt ;-p. Thursday, October 22, PM. Buy a new harddisk and replaced it then reload the recovery DVD.
I got same problem and that is the only solution for me. Proposed as answer by fix-you Friday, October 23, AM. Friday, October 23, AM. I just recently began having problems getting into Windows. This was last Wednesday and I have been wandering around the Web looking for answers. Some of the answers actually worked - until the next attempt at loading Windows. My only issue at getting a new hard disk is that doesn't seem to be the original problem.
I note that a Windows Update came in the day prior. I also note that this is an issue reported all over the various tech forums and happens no matter what machine the install is on. Which would also seem to imply that the hard drive can't be the problem.
My hard drive looked great. I also had an external drive attached and initially when I removed all USB connections that worked to get Windows reinstalled. Until I recovered my data files.
But now that can't be it, because my external drive isn't attached and I've only just reinstalled windows without applying updates. BIOS already flashed. In any case this seems a problem that has been going on for a very long time. How come the powers that be haven't fixed it yet? Sunday, October 25, PM. Maxy3d I have also been struggling with this problem recently. This was a completely random occurrence no updates installed for weeks and then all of a sudden and before a really important meeting of course I get this problem.
At first windows crashed with the error along the lines that the hiberfil. Safemode showed that the loading was stopping on the crcdisk. None of the windows repair options worked. I even used a windows embedded on a usb key and used error checking on the drive. I have completely sorted this problem without too much messing around with the file system. Without wanting to remove the hard drive and mount in another computer to remove the drivers suggested above - I went into the bios and turned off all the attached hardware.
Bluetooth, mediacard, wireless, everything embedded but most significantly the pccard module. I manually removed the hibernation functionality in vista using the following command line prompt powercfg. I restarted my machine which removed the hiberfil. Defrag and system clean up to remove all the rubbish and then re-enabled hibernation functionality.
Hey presto hibernation is working again. Final task, re-enable all the hardware in the bios and fingers crossed. Windows started fine and installed some new hardware I'm assuming that was the pccard module. I've restarted a few time now, and also hibernated a few times with no problems so far.
This problem would now appear to be sorted for me, if you get this problem try doing something with the hiberfil. As vista enables hibernation by default this could be the route of all problems. Someone needs to test this theory! Thursday, November 12, PM. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help.
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Windows failed to start - crcdisk. How to Fix crcdisk. Step 1: Restore your PC back to the latest restore point, "snapshot", or backup image before error occurred. In the search results, find and click System Restore. Follow the steps in the System Restore Wizard to choose a relevant restore point.
Restore your computer to that backup image. If the Step 1 fails to resolve the crcdisk. You'll be prompted with a permission dialog box. In the box, click " YES ". You should have a black screen with a blinking cursor. SFC will begin scanning for crcdisk. Follow any on-screen commands to complete the process. Please be aware that this scan might take a while, so please be patient while it is working.
If this Step 2 fails as well, please proceed to the Step 3 below. In the Windows Update dialog box, click " Check for Updates " or similar button depending on your Windows version If updates are available for download, click " Install Updates ".
After the update is completed, restart your PC. Please follow the steps below to download and properly replace you file: Locate your Windows operating system version in the list of below "Download crcdisk. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hope this Helps! How satisfied are you with this reply?
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