re: fatal crashes in Windows XP -atapi.sys
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 8:00 am
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Posted by armysarge48
(1 messages posted)
I have come across this problem several times on customers computers. Some of the
BS security software/adware and viruses replace the atapi.sys file. Look at the
Time/date of the file. If you have SP3 installed it should be 04/13/2008 11:40 AM.
If it isn't then find a good copy of the file and replace it.
On Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11:49 am, Dak wrote:
>I had this same problem, but luckily had two copies of XP installed on two different
>partitions of my hard drive. Windows would not boot at all, so I started the second
>partition, went into the system32/drivers folder on the Windows copy that was not
>working and cut the atapi.sys file from there and pasted it to a different location
>for a backup.
>Then I copied the atapi.sys file that was working from the system32/drivers folder
>on the second copy of windows that I had logged in to and pasted it into the system32/drivers
>folder of the copy of windows that was not working. Then I rebooted and it worked
>just fine.
>
>Long story short, if you can find a working version of atapi.sys from a similar
copy
>of windows and replace the version on your drive (you could probably use a Linux
>boot cd or similar if need be), that might well fix the problem. It's also probably
>the easiest thing to try first.
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