- Apr 15, 2014
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Hello guys,
i really hope you can give me some new input here
The Situation:
Asus Ultrabook Ux31e with only a SSD and USB2.0/3.0 (no optical) was totally messed up. Several viruses -> got rid of them.
But some atheros driver related BSoD still remained, even after a clean driver install. So i tried the repair from inbuilt recovery partition. Not working at all (various errors, sometimes just random shutdowns).
Went on to repair via usb repair stick...and there it got complicated: Boot Manager cant load because of critical system file missing or corrupt. Depending on EFI disabled or not it was pcw.sys or tcpip.sys.
...and windows wouldnt load at all afterwards, just stopped there (in safe mode it loads drivers to those points).
Had a Kali Linux Live usb laying around and used it to check for bad sectors. 3 read only runs - no BS. Thought to myself "well, screw it" and used format on the ssd ( including the recovery) to try a clean win7(64 as it came with that one) install from usb on an empty disk. EFI disabled (when enabled, even with stick setup for EFI, it just gets me to bios).
Guess what...recognizes the stick just fine, loads the files from usb until - bam - windows failed to start. tcpip.sys missing or corrupt (0xc0000098).
The bios version is 211 and the options there are limited to Legacy y/n, EFI y/n and Boot order.
Anyone came across something like this? I read like several dozen pages of forums but everything I tried brought me nowhere near a solution...i´m lost and quite frustrated after like 2 days of trial and error =(
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE: FYI of course I used different official Win7 Iso, so those were not actually corrupt.
In my darkest moment I switched to a 32bit distribution of Home Premium and voilá...it works.
Doesnt really count as a solution as it came with 64bit pre-installed, huh?
i really hope you can give me some new input here
The Situation:
Asus Ultrabook Ux31e with only a SSD and USB2.0/3.0 (no optical) was totally messed up. Several viruses -> got rid of them.
But some atheros driver related BSoD still remained, even after a clean driver install. So i tried the repair from inbuilt recovery partition. Not working at all (various errors, sometimes just random shutdowns).
Went on to repair via usb repair stick...and there it got complicated: Boot Manager cant load because of critical system file missing or corrupt. Depending on EFI disabled or not it was pcw.sys or tcpip.sys.
...and windows wouldnt load at all afterwards, just stopped there (in safe mode it loads drivers to those points).
Had a Kali Linux Live usb laying around and used it to check for bad sectors. 3 read only runs - no BS. Thought to myself "well, screw it" and used format on the ssd ( including the recovery) to try a clean win7(64 as it came with that one) install from usb on an empty disk. EFI disabled (when enabled, even with stick setup for EFI, it just gets me to bios).
Guess what...recognizes the stick just fine, loads the files from usb until - bam - windows failed to start. tcpip.sys missing or corrupt (0xc0000098).
The bios version is 211 and the options there are limited to Legacy y/n, EFI y/n and Boot order.
Anyone came across something like this? I read like several dozen pages of forums but everything I tried brought me nowhere near a solution...i´m lost and quite frustrated after like 2 days of trial and error =(
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE: FYI of course I used different official Win7 Iso, so those were not actually corrupt.
In my darkest moment I switched to a 32bit distribution of Home Premium and voilá...it works.
Doesnt really count as a solution as it came with 64bit pre-installed, huh?
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