Windows xp has stopped identifying drivers
Hi,
My xp pro has started to do stupid things lately.it started with my iPad. When I p,utter it in, it identified a new device and wanted me to install drivers. It used to just bring up iTunes. Now it does not. I had mouse problems today, I have a logitech USB mouse with a ball. It is a wireless mouse, but the batteries died, so...i plugged in a non ball mouse and it asked for the driver. Suspecting a corrupt disk drive on a hunch, I used system restore to go back 1month. In had installed zune just before this had all started and am suspecting that too, especially for the iPad device. Anyway... I then cloned the drive using acronis and when I brought it up, it says it found the new drive, but wants to install the driver for it!?
Do I have a corrupt registry? Would it not use the same driver as the other drive? I know they are different but they are both sata and I have attached it too the same port.
Is it, or was it zune that caused me issues? When I uninstalled it, that did not help. Please, I don't want to reinstall xp.
Thanks,
My xp pro has started to do stupid things lately.it started with my iPad. When I p,utter it in, it identified a new device and wanted me to install drivers. It used to just bring up iTunes. Now it does not. I had mouse problems today, I have a logitech USB mouse with a ball. It is a wireless mouse, but the batteries died, so...i plugged in a non ball mouse and it asked for the driver. Suspecting a corrupt disk drive on a hunch, I used system restore to go back 1month. In had installed zune just before this had all started and am suspecting that too, especially for the iPad device. Anyway... I then cloned the drive using acronis and when I brought it up, it says it found the new drive, but wants to install the driver for it!?
Do I have a corrupt registry? Would it not use the same driver as the other drive? I know they are different but they are both sata and I have attached it too the same port.
Is it, or was it zune that caused me issues? When I uninstalled it, that did not help. Please, I don't want to reinstall xp.
Thanks,
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I could, and I have it but, the cd is prior to sp1. Believe me, it has been a royal pain to reinstall this system the few times I have done it. I looked at the drivers for my original disk....
(all in c:\windows\system32\driver
Disk.sys
PartMgr.sys
Snap man.sys
The new disk has them all except disk.sys? I fail to understand why this driver seems to not load. Xp can handle 1st disks, and this is just a clone of my 160gb?
Any other suggestions?
(all in c:\windows\system32\driver
Disk.sys
PartMgr.sys
Snap man.sys
The new disk has them all except disk.sys? I fail to understand why this driver seems to not load. Xp can handle 1st disks, and this is just a clone of my 160gb?
Any other suggestions?
Thats the drivers, not the actual souirce of the .INF files....
Check this reg path, for a value called "DevicePath"
What is it set to?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
Or, paste the following in a cmd prompt...
Check this reg path, for a value called "DevicePath"
What is it set to?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
Or, paste the following in a cmd prompt...
reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" /v "devicepath">reg.txt
notepad reg.txt
echo.
Whew. Thanks for the bailout, John
Dont thank me yet..... :-)
>> I then cloned the drive << that was the bad install you cloned, so no wonder it does not work
i would run the repair install first, or just do a fresh install
and ; if you want to be safe - AFTER everything is installed oon your pc, just image that (or clone it, if you like) to have a quick reinstall of all your applications and software
i would run the repair install first, or just do a fresh install
and ; if you want to be safe - AFTER everything is installed oon your pc, just image that (or clone it, if you like) to have a quick reinstall of all your applications and software
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Here are some answers. First the REG key item..
! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
devicepath REG_EXPAND_SZ SystemRoot%\inf
As for the disk, yes I understand it is a copy of the bad one. The old disk is dying a SLOW death and I wanted to make sure it was not something there that was corrupt causing my demise here.
I will try the slipstream of my XP, but it is PRE SP1... Will it still work! (I know it is old.)
thanks
! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
devicepath REG_EXPAND_SZ SystemRoot%\inf
As for the disk, yes I understand it is a copy of the bad one. The old disk is dying a SLOW death and I wanted to make sure it was not something there that was corrupt causing my demise here.
I will try the slipstream of my XP, but it is PRE SP1... Will it still work! (I know it is old.)
thanks
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I built an XP PRO CD. Thank you. I realize I have potentially cloned a bad disk. The reason is, I will not screw with a data disk, the originalmstays as original till I fix the issue. No updates will be done to it till this issue is resolved.
Was there an outcome to the registry key I examined? Is there anything else to do before I perform a repair?
Thanks,
Was there an outcome to the registry key I examined? Is there anything else to do before I perform a repair?
Thanks,
for the reg key - let's wait what john has to say
for the repair, i can't see anything holding you back
for the repair, i can't see anything holding you back
Sorry for the delay... Reg key is fine. It is pointing to your C:\Windows\INF Folder.....
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Sorry,
I had rebuilt my copy of windows XP from scratch (well with the updated SP3 added from above) I have not returned to the old disk as of yet, but will try the hard coding of the c:\windows\INF file when I do. I have made note on the HD to do this.
Originally, I had thought this issue had started with a CD/DVD rom that was causing my system to reboot, it was a DVD that was on my IDE bus. I changed it to a SATA but this issue continued. When I posted that question her (Over a year ago) someone suggested that maybe it was windows as the SATA was doing the SAME THING. When this problem cropped up.. i decided to rebuild windows anyway as that issue was really annoying.
IN anycase, I did the rebuild and my driver issue is gone. WONDERFUL but expected. Unfortunatly... the system is still rebooting when accessing the CD/DVD ROM. So, I guess this may be a m/b issue or hardware problem... DARN!!
thanks to all for your help. I will close this with the proper attention to points.
I had rebuilt my copy of windows XP from scratch (well with the updated SP3 added from above) I have not returned to the old disk as of yet, but will try the hard coding of the c:\windows\INF file when I do. I have made note on the HD to do this.
Originally, I had thought this issue had started with a CD/DVD rom that was causing my system to reboot, it was a DVD that was on my IDE bus. I changed it to a SATA but this issue continued. When I posted that question her (Over a year ago) someone suggested that maybe it was windows as the SATA was doing the SAME THING. When this problem cropped up.. i decided to rebuild windows anyway as that issue was really annoying.
IN anycase, I did the rebuild and my driver issue is gone. WONDERFUL but expected. Unfortunatly... the system is still rebooting when accessing the CD/DVD ROM. So, I guess this may be a m/b issue or hardware problem... DARN!!
thanks to all for your help. I will close this with the proper attention to points.
One of the best things you can do is run a Repair Install if you have the XP Installation CD...can you try that first?