- Oct 21, 2000
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Ever since I enabled my virtual drive on Alcohol 120%, I've been having constant and random reboots until last evening when it refused to finishing loading Windows at all. On the splash/progress screen, it would just show the sliding bar forever.
I tried booting into safe mode and as sptd.sys tries to load, it gives you the option of pressing escape to stop it. I didn't know what this was but it piqued my interest and I started researching. Turns out it's part of daemon tools and other companies (ie Alcohol 120%) uses them as well. It also turns out that sptd.sys is a huge troublemaker.
The jist of it is, the fix to this is supposedly you press ESC to stop it from loading (when prompted) then you just go into windows, uninstall DT or Alcohol and reboot. If you can't get into windows (like me), you need to boot into a recover console and delete sptd.sys and sptd####.sys (where # is a 4 digit random number) and then you should be able to boot up fine.
1. I tried deleting the two files. And so now it doesn't load sptd.sys anymore. Home free right? Nope, now I don't get the "Press ESC to stop loading sptd.sys" message anymore but it still stalls at the same place.
2. I thought my deleting it messed something up. After all I'd rather get the choice of pressing esc. So I found a different system that has sptd.sys but a different sptd####.sys (obviously) and copied it over to my system. Now I get the message but after I press escape, it won't load.
I am quite sure that stpd.sys is still the culrpit but the other explanation is that it's something else altogether. Does anyone have any ideas? I can't tell what the offending driver is. Is there a way to look at the order (not alphabetical btw) which windows loads drivers so I can systematically figure this out. BTW, previous versions of windows had step loading where you can say yes or no to each line. I wish XP would have this.
Any help would be appreciated.
I tried booting into safe mode and as sptd.sys tries to load, it gives you the option of pressing escape to stop it. I didn't know what this was but it piqued my interest and I started researching. Turns out it's part of daemon tools and other companies (ie Alcohol 120%) uses them as well. It also turns out that sptd.sys is a huge troublemaker.
The jist of it is, the fix to this is supposedly you press ESC to stop it from loading (when prompted) then you just go into windows, uninstall DT or Alcohol and reboot. If you can't get into windows (like me), you need to boot into a recover console and delete sptd.sys and sptd####.sys (where # is a 4 digit random number) and then you should be able to boot up fine.
1. I tried deleting the two files. And so now it doesn't load sptd.sys anymore. Home free right? Nope, now I don't get the "Press ESC to stop loading sptd.sys" message anymore but it still stalls at the same place.
2. I thought my deleting it messed something up. After all I'd rather get the choice of pressing esc. So I found a different system that has sptd.sys but a different sptd####.sys (obviously) and copied it over to my system. Now I get the message but after I press escape, it won't load.
I am quite sure that stpd.sys is still the culrpit but the other explanation is that it's something else altogether. Does anyone have any ideas? I can't tell what the offending driver is. Is there a way to look at the order (not alphabetical btw) which windows loads drivers so I can systematically figure this out. BTW, previous versions of windows had step loading where you can say yes or no to each line. I wish XP would have this.
Any help would be appreciated.
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