Here is a little back story:
I was getting a lot of blue screens. The only thing I could find that was obviously causing a problem was thousands of error messages in the device manager from my Logitech quickcam so I attempted to uninstall it but in the middle of it Windows froze. After rebooting windows, all crashing problems had stopped completely but a hole slew of other problems had cropped up. One of the major problems I now had was no sound. All drivers having to do with sound were either missing or corrupted. Some of the other problems that I noticed where I couldn’t get Norton to run and Skype didn’t start automatically anymore. Multiple programs couldn’t access the internet either like a lot of my Steam games, but strangely I was still able to go online using Firefox and Internet explorer. So when I got tired of trying to just repair or reinstall drivers individually and getting error messages like, You can only run one instance of this installer at a time to quit the other before I could proceed (even though there was only the one going) I decided to try a Windows repair.
The current problem I’m faced with:
Now that I did this I get a bluescreen every time the windows loading screen comes up and tells me there is a problem with "nv4.mini.sys" which I think is a Nvidia driver. I have tried starting in safe mode but get Windows telling me as soon as it starts up "Windows XP Setup cannot run under Safe mode. Setup will restart now." I have also tried to Start with "Last known good configuration" with no luck. It occurred to me too late that what might of caused this problem is I was trying to repair Windows XP and the CD I have is service pack 2 and I had updated to service pack 3. The biggest concern I have is there is still some stuff on my C drive (Windows hard drive) that I hadn’t copied over to my D drive yet. My problem or question is, is there any way to finish the repair, or just go back to a Restore point before I tried to repair, so I can just transfer those files over and then just for ease sake do a reformat of that drive with a new clean windows install or any other ideas would really be appreciated.
Thank you in advance for any help.
I was getting a lot of blue screens. The only thing I could find that was obviously causing a problem was thousands of error messages in the device manager from my Logitech quickcam so I attempted to uninstall it but in the middle of it Windows froze. After rebooting windows, all crashing problems had stopped completely but a hole slew of other problems had cropped up. One of the major problems I now had was no sound. All drivers having to do with sound were either missing or corrupted. Some of the other problems that I noticed where I couldn’t get Norton to run and Skype didn’t start automatically anymore. Multiple programs couldn’t access the internet either like a lot of my Steam games, but strangely I was still able to go online using Firefox and Internet explorer. So when I got tired of trying to just repair or reinstall drivers individually and getting error messages like, You can only run one instance of this installer at a time to quit the other before I could proceed (even though there was only the one going) I decided to try a Windows repair.
The current problem I’m faced with:
Now that I did this I get a bluescreen every time the windows loading screen comes up and tells me there is a problem with "nv4.mini.sys" which I think is a Nvidia driver. I have tried starting in safe mode but get Windows telling me as soon as it starts up "Windows XP Setup cannot run under Safe mode. Setup will restart now." I have also tried to Start with "Last known good configuration" with no luck. It occurred to me too late that what might of caused this problem is I was trying to repair Windows XP and the CD I have is service pack 2 and I had updated to service pack 3. The biggest concern I have is there is still some stuff on my C drive (Windows hard drive) that I hadn’t copied over to my D drive yet. My problem or question is, is there any way to finish the repair, or just go back to a Restore point before I tried to repair, so I can just transfer those files over and then just for ease sake do a reformat of that drive with a new clean windows install or any other ideas would really be appreciated.
Thank you in advance for any help.