XP crashed on me
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 12:18 pm
I had a CD-RW disc in my LiteOn drive. I went to Nero Info Tool to see the status of my drives, and to my amazement it found no system ASPI layer. I remember installing one before my last firmware upgrade. So I thought I should go to adaptec's site and install one again. I found this page and downloaded the file http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/suppor ... _471a2.exe Is this the wrong one? In the installation instructions, I just used to run the install.bat file but here it said to go to run and type XP32 for my system. I did that and it gave me an error (i forgot what it was). Then I went back to infotool and it said ASPI drivers corrupted. After that I decided to take out my CD-RW disc and do a reboot. The moment I pressed the eject button, I got a stop error from XP After that I had to do a cold-restart. And XP never started, it said it couldn't find the C:WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder, use the CD to repair these files by pressing R.
Then I booted from the XP cd and due to the type of cd I had, it wouldn't let me repair it. That wasn't a problem as I just did another installation of XP on the same drive. Now here are my 2 questions after all this talking -
:-: What went wrong with ASPI? Did I download the wrong thing? I am scared even to download any ASPI again. Which way should I do it, without any system crash
:-: Now whenever I start my computer, I have that operating systems choice. The first choice is the one which I installed as C:\WINDOWS2. This is the one I want to use from nowon. How do I get rid of my previous Windows installation. Should I just delete the previous C:\Windows folder? How do I get rid of those choices? I know I can minimize the time it waits on that menu to 0, but I want to completely get rid of that link in the OS menu to the wrong installation of windows.
I know this is long, but I was up till 4 am fixing my crash. Please help. Thanks.
Then I booted from the XP cd and due to the type of cd I had, it wouldn't let me repair it. That wasn't a problem as I just did another installation of XP on the same drive. Now here are my 2 questions after all this talking -
:-: What went wrong with ASPI? Did I download the wrong thing? I am scared even to download any ASPI again. Which way should I do it, without any system crash
:-: Now whenever I start my computer, I have that operating systems choice. The first choice is the one which I installed as C:\WINDOWS2. This is the one I want to use from nowon. How do I get rid of my previous Windows installation. Should I just delete the previous C:\Windows folder? How do I get rid of those choices? I know I can minimize the time it waits on that menu to 0, but I want to completely get rid of that link in the OS menu to the wrong installation of windows.
I know this is long, but I was up till 4 am fixing my crash. Please help. Thanks.