Blank screen after Vista starts, stuck at crcdisk.sys with safe mode and can't run startup repair

[Epic Fail]

Vista can start and I can see the progress bar screen, but before the log in screen, it turns to completely black.

Prior to this happening, after I woke the computer from sleep, it was in its low resolution mode and I couldn't change to high resolution, then I rebooted and see the black screen.

Any help?

Update:

Hanging at crcdisk.sys when I tried to run in safe mode.

I ran Vista's startup repair, but it just get stuck too, no progress at all. And can't use system restore because it detected file system corruption and wants me to run startup repair.

I also tried chkdsk with command prompt in recovery mode, also stuck, no progress.

Any clue?

 

[mrblotto]

safe-mode, uninstall/reinstall vid drivers maybe? And dont use sleep mode-its more trouble than its worth. Then again I'm biased, as I work on thinkpads all day, so the only time I see them is when they're not working.....lol

 

[Epic Fail]

can't even start safe mode, it hangs at crcdisk.sys

I am running startup repair from the thinkvantage package, it is attempting a repair and "might take over an hour to complete".

 

[ch33zw1z]

If you google crcdisk.sys you might find an answer, lots of hits.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: ch33zw1z
If you google crcdisk.sys you might find an answer, lots of hits.

Yeah, did that already, most involves reformat. I will let the internal repair finish before I start that.

Vista sucks...

 

[mrblotto]

Perhaps the disk is going bad. I cant believe how many bad drives I've seen in the relatively short time the T6x line has been used here at work. It may behoove you to replace the drive if its still under warranty.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: ch33zw1z
If you google crcdisk.sys you might find an answer, lots of hits.

Yeah, did that already, most involves reformat. I will let the internal repair finish before I start that.

Vista sucks...

Post results! I haven't heard much good about Vista..

 

[Epic Fail]

Hanging at crcdisk.sys when I tried to run in safe mode.

I ran Vista's startup repair, but it just get stuck too, no progress at all. And can't use system restore because it detected file system corruption and wants me to run startup repair.

I also tried chkdsk with command prompt in recovery mode, also stuck, no progress.

Any clue?

 

[robisbell]

if this is a new laptop, run the restore dvd/cd that came with it.

if you installed Vista over XP, I'd get "The Ultimate Boot CD" and LL the drive and reinstall Vista fresh.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: robisbell
if this is a new laptop, run the restore dvd/cd that came with it.

if you installed Vista over XP, I'd get "The Ultimate Boot CD" and LL the drive and reinstall Vista fresh.

I used it for a few months now, came fresh with Vista. No hardware upgrade before it borked, only did a Ram upgrade when I first got it.

I know reinstall Vista is the easiest route, but I am being stubborn.

 

[boomerang]

You can dis Vista if you want, but you've got a hardware problem.

You've as much as been told you have a HD problem. I'd be investigating that.

 

[robisbell]

I'd contect the Manufacturer and let them fix it, it's under warranty.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: boomerang
You can dis Vista if you want, but you've got a hardware problem.

You've as much as been told you have a HD problem. I'd be investigating that.

I ran hard drive diagnostic test with Lenovo's rescue package and it came out clean. I can also start WindowsRE (recovery environment) which is in the same HDD as my Vista partition.

This is the closest solution I found to my problem, but I didn't have Acronis. This guy who worked for MS for 13 years was able to pinpoint the filter driver that was causing his problem. What is the point of safe mode if you can't start it?

 

[robisbell]

well, double check the registry. it may have been preloaded. good call on the article, I did not see that while I was searching.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: boomerang
You can dis Vista if you want, but you've got a hardware problem.

You've as much as been told you have a HD problem. I'd be investigating that.

I ran hard drive diagnostic test with Lenovo's rescue package and it came out clean. I can also start WindowsRE (recovery environment) which is in the same HDD as my Vista partition.

This is the closest solution I found to my problem, but I didn't have Acronis. This guy who worked for MS for 13 years was able to pinpoint the filter driver that was causing his problem. What is the point of safe mode if you can't start it?

Did you follow those steps to see what filter drivers you _do_ have?

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: boomerang
You can dis Vista if you want, but you've got a hardware problem.

You've as much as been told you have a HD problem. I'd be investigating that.

I ran hard drive diagnostic test with Lenovo's rescue package and it came out clean. I can also start WindowsRE (recovery environment) which is in the same HDD as my Vista partition.

This is the closest solution I found to my problem, but I didn't have Acronis. This guy who worked for MS for 13 years was able to pinpoint the filter driver that was causing his problem. What is the point of safe mode if you can't start it?

Did you follow those steps to see what filter drivers you _do_ have?

Those steps are specifically for people who uninstalled Acronis and I don't have extra value in my upper filters, so I am not sure what filter drivers you want me to have.

I also tried to start with boot log enabled, but it didn't generate a log, so I don't know which driver it stopped when Vista started up.

 

[dclive]

I just re-read the post - your system hangs when you run chkdsk?

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: dclive
I just re-read the post - your system hangs when you run chkdsk?

Yup, tried with Vista recovery disc and booting from the recovery partition, both hanged and not a single word of output after I started chkdsk.

 

[robisbell]

it sounds like a botched preinstall of Vista.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: dclive
I just re-read the post - your system hangs when you run chkdsk?

Yup, tried with Vista recovery disc and booting from the recovery partition, both hanged and not a single word of output after I started chkdsk.

If it hangs when running chkdsk, that suggests a hardware issue. It's highly unlikely your primary install of Vista, AND booting from the Vista DVD, AND booting from the recovery partition's 'Vista' to run chkdsk, ALL have the same issue running chkdsk.

It's entertaining to think about that though.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: dclive
I just re-read the post - your system hangs when you run chkdsk?

Yup, tried with Vista recovery disc and booting from the recovery partition, both hanged and not a single word of output after I started chkdsk.

If it hangs when running chkdsk, that suggests a hardware issue. It's highly unlikely your primary install of Vista, AND booting from the Vista DVD, AND booting from the recovery partition's 'Vista' to run chkdsk, ALL have the same issue running chkdsk.

It's entertaining to think about that though.

The hanging occurs when I run chkdsk on the Vista partition, I can run chkdsk and found no problems if I only check recovery's partition. I can also browse my files and open txt files in my Vista's partition using command prompt in recovery mode, so I doubt it's hardware problem.

Most of the crcdisk.sys errors I searched is caused by driver conflict but is not caused by crcdisk.sys itself. I guess what I want to know is is there a way to isolate the driver conflict that is preventing vista from loading.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: robisbell
it sounds like a botched preinstall of Vista.

My Vista was factory installed and I didn't upgrade my Vista and I was able to use it for months.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: yamadakun
The hanging occurs when I run chkdsk on the Vista partition, I can run chkdsk and found no problems if I only check recovery's partition. I can also browse my files and open txt files in my Vista's partition using command prompt in recovery mode, so I doubt it's hardware problem.

Most of the crcdisk.sys errors I searched is caused by driver conflict but is not caused by crcdisk.sys itself. I guess what I want to know is is there a way to isolate the driver conflict that is preventing vista from loading.

If you're trying to run chkdsk on a single partition and it hangs, you've got a hardware issue of some sort (or a very serious disk error of some sort, clearly). The recovery partition is another partition; if you can repro the issue with the 'main' partition, that's a problem. That you can browse files isn't nearly as intensive a test as chkdsk, and so doesn't discount a hardware issue (or serious disk issue).

Just because loading 'stops' at crcdisk.sys doesn't mean that much - it could be something that loads immediately after that, or all kinds of things. If safe mode won't work, and you can't run chkdsk, I'd probably first reimage, taking care to watch what happened to the drive, and, assuming the same issues kept popping up (disk errors) I'd look into replacing the drive.

 

[robisbell]

that's why i said "Preinstall", since it came with the system installed before you bought it. could have been a bad imaging from the master or bad install they did.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: robisbell
that's why i said "Preinstall", since it came with the system installed before you bought it. could have been a bad imaging from the master or bad install they did.

How would a software problem (bad image...) cause a problem with chkdsk, whether run from DVD, recovery partition, or OS partition?

This is a hardware issue or serious disk issue. It's not image-related.