OS Trouble Due to Virtual Drive

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Hi All,

I have a Laptop running Windows 2000 Professional.
I installed Virtual Drive 9 on it and my Laptop started misbehaving.
As soon as I login, the system reboots.
I even tried in the safe mode using the "administrator" login and password but to no avail.

Cud someone please help??

Thanks,
DC.
 
try this...

hit f8 during startup...choose safe mode with command prompt...once the cmd prompt comes (hopefully), type <exit>, then hit ctrl-alt-del to get the task manager....then run task>explorer

go to control panel and remove the offending application....

see if this works and post back
 
This is because the virtual drive loads a sys file into the WINNT/system or WINNT/system32/drivers folder (check both), which is causing the problem. You'll have to manually delete the file to make the system work again. Use a Windows 2k/XP CD to boot into the recovery mode (DOS prompt) and delete the file.

This had happened to me with Daemon tools, and I had do the same thing to make my system work. If you're unsure about the file's name then try this. I'm not too sure if this works with Win2K as I use XP; when you go into safe mode, the OS shows you the list of system files being loaded onto the system. Most of the names are pretty intuitive, so you should be able to figure out which file it was. Or then google the program's name and find out which sys file it loads onto the system.

I hope this helped.
 
@czar : I cudnt find the process in the process list in Task manager

@tracerbullet: I tried to google and find the name of the file but to no avail ...

What do I do now???

Regards,

DC.
 
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@czar : I cudnt find the process in the process list in Task manager
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umm...no...this is now what I said

Good that you can reach task mgr though....once u r on task mgr, you'll see that this is the only window on an otherwise blank desktop.....

Now go to File>New Task(Run) and in the subsequesnt windows , enter "explorer" (without the cquotes of course)

Now you'll see the normal windows taskbar...go to start>control panel>add remove programs and remove the offending application (i.e. Virtual drive)
 
@czar : I cudnt find the process in the process list in Task manager
Click to expand...

umm...no...this is now what I said

Good that you can reach task mgr though....once u r on task mgr, you'll see that this is the only window on an otherwise blank desktop.....

Now go to File>New Task(Run) and in the subsequesnt windows , enter "explorer" (without the cquotes of course)

Now you'll see the normal windows taskbar...go to start>control panel>add remove programs and remove the offending application (i.e. Virtual drive)
 
I think these are the ones - cda.pdr , cdant.sys and cda.sys

I suggest that you do a rename instead of deleting the files. If the system boots then you can safely delete them after that. Let me know if this worked.

Edit: I didn't realise that you could reach the task manager. If you can, then do as Czar said, but that may not work as you can't always uninstall programs in safe mode. Especially if they're using the Windows installshield service. It'll give you an error saying that the service isn't running. In which case, try this: Under 'new task' in task manager, type devmgmt.msc to open the device manager, and disable/uninstall the device from SCSI adapters.
 
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