re: Mup.sys but not at fault
Monday, November 15, 2004 at 12:47 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kirk
(3 messages posted)
Hi all, i was haveing the MUP.sys hang and reboot problem. Don't know if it is directly
responsible but, i had a bad WD hard drive. Tested with WDs software.
On Sunday, November 14, 2004 at 1:41 pm, planet3tech wrote:
>Had a similar problem as some listed in this forum: WinXP would get to the boot
screen,
>and then reboot a few seconds into it. I couldn't boot into any safe mode (it hung
>at the mup.sys stage), and when I booted from a floppy or CD, I couldn't find my
>C:/ drive. Did all the normal things...removing PCI cards, moving RAM, unplugging
>USB devices...nothing worked.
>
>Finally, I resolved to reinstall, but rethought when, after I booted from the XP
>disk, I got a message that my machine was already in the process of upgrading (don't
>know why). Tried the continue/finish upgrade, but that didn't work: I got a blue
>screen with an unmountable_boot_volume message and some stop numbers. However,
>that message was progress. I booted again from the XP disk, and chose the exit
without
>installing/upgrading XP. That worked....The normal reinstall files loaded from
the
>CD, and I got to the expected install/repair setup selection screen. I chose R
to
>repair it, but at the DOS prompt, I typed in chkdsk /p and entered it. It immediately
>started working hard on the first 50% of the drive and took a few minutes. Got
a
>message that it was checking more or recovering. After reaching the 50% mark, it
>moved fairly quickly. When it finished, and returned to the DOS prompt, I typed
>in fixboot and entered it. Then entered Yes (for was I sure?). It worked a second
>and reported it recreated boot info successfully. I exited, and it rebooted into
>XP like nothing had ever gone wrong.
>
>Hope this helps at least one or two of you.
>
>
>
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