I hate Vista...(crcdisk.sys problem)

Ok...(breathe), so the other night I installed Comodo Firewall because I didn't want to use the MS crap and after installing it restarted my computer only to be greeted by the dreaded BSOD. At first I thought it might have been Comodo's fault but it turns out, after looking at my system restore points, that there was a driver update installed as well. I tried to do a system restore before this point but it doesn't help at all. Loading into safe mode does not work either, it get's stuck on crcdisk.sys so I Googled the problem and found it was pretty common. However there doesn't appear to be any good fixes for it (or at least universal fixes). Needless to say I'm pretty pissed; I've only had my laptop since the tenth! Can anyone help me out here? I really have no idea what to do after looking around the net for hours and I really don't want to reformat. My notebook is the Gateway P-6860 FX.

Also thought I'd mention, I've got Ubuntu on my laptop as well but it is installed via Wubi so it doesn't open now either.

 

Here is something to try:

Start the computer, and try to enter safe mode. Once the system freezes on crcdisk, do not power down by holding power button for 4 seconds, instead, press and depress it quickly for a restart.

If it does restart, after POST choose to start in 'Safe Mode with Command Prompt'. The driver update may have been somehow corrupted by installing Comodo, so if that's the case, following this procedure will hopefully allow the driver update to continue.

That's all I can think of right now.

 

Unfortunately, that didn't seem to work, thanks for the advice though. I've tried all the different startup options (except "Directory Services Restore Mode") and none work.

 

Did a quick google search, and you are right, no specific solutions even though the problem seems to be as old as Vista. Some people had a problem with crcdisk.sys that was related to pcmcia.sys files, and though I doubt this is your case, here is how they solved it:

That seemed to work for a decent amount of people but not all, and other solutions are pretty random and probably not worth trying, so at this point I am thinking a clean install might save you more time than trying different approaches - that unless there is stuff you don't want wiped out from the drive..

 

Hm..I might try that. I found out I can still see and access all of my windows files from my Ubuntu live CD. I'm going to install Ubuntu until I figure out what I want to do with my Windows installation. If I knew what files were causing the problem I could just go in through Ubuntu and delete them...

 

Yea or easier solution is back up your important files and do a fresh install of vista. It ends up saving more time to do a fresh install rather than trying to isolate the problem and fix it

 

what about inserting vista install cd on boot and trying to see if vista could fix startup problem?