Help please! Windows XP pro won't boot - aswRvrt

[quietmole]

Hi
I know I'm not first, but my xp pro won't boot in any mode and hangs on aswRvrt.sys. I tried replacing that with one from a known working machine, to no avail. I've got Ubuntu 13.10 on a USB so I can interrogate the disk if that helps.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Geoff

Not sure if I should put this in the virus area?? Because idk if it is or not???

[essexboy]

Could you go here http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0 scroll down to If you cannot  Boot the computer and attach the log here

[quietmole]

I'm on it now.

[quietmole]

Okay tried two CD burns and two optical drives on non-booting machine, and it gets to the end of the progress bars on Reatogo and then hangs - drive stops spinning, nothing happens. I can boot into Ubuntu okay from either drive, so I don't suspect them, and CDs are decent Verbatims which don't usually cause a problem.

Any suggestions?

[essexboy]

To me that would suggest you may have a hard drive problem or an MFT problem

Does the disc you have enable to run a chkdsk on the C drive

[quietmole]

Not sure, Ill take a look

[quietmole]

Not getting very far here. I decided to go back to making another Reatogo disc, using a Vista laptop I had kicking about. After the usual nonsense that Vista provides in spades, I made another disc but that also hung after "starting Reatogo-X-PE" and the CD span down. I haven't found a way yet of running chkdsk, and now the bios is giving me a problem and I can't get it to boot from CD, however many times I change the boot order - the CD drives are both parenthesised, indicating, to me, a HW glitch? I should probably clear down??

[quietmole]

Okay I managed to get past that and booted into ubuntu from cd. Ran a disc check from there, but it didn't find anything.

So the I put the disc on a usb-sata converter thing that I had kicking about, and ran chkdsk on it - it found errors and then reached a point where the message was 'insufficient disc space to correct errors in index $ S11 of file 9.

Currently running Malwarebytes on it. Bit slow because USB!

[essexboy]

You will need to clear some disc space to enable chkdsk to complete properly, once it has completed a normal boot should be available 

[quietmole]

But there's about 20 Gb spare on a 160 Gb disc - surely enough???

[essexboy]

In that case you may need to run chkdsk several times

[quietmole]

Okay. I'll let MWB finish first - it's been rolling for 3.5 hours...

And, in case I forget to say it - thanks very much for your time and help on this, it really is very much appreciated.

[essexboy]

No problem, but the thing to bear in mind is that windows stops on the last successfully loaded driver not the one with the problem

[quietmole]

Thanks - good point. So how to know what's next on the list? Is it just alpha through the drivers dir? If so, that might allow me to sub in some drivers from this machine (currently working okay, touch wood!) and see if that gets past the hitch. Does that make sense?

[essexboy]

Unfortunately it works on a priority and requirement system and not alphabetical.  So as to what the next driver is will depend on the system setup and hardware.  I.e. it could be any one of them