Prev: LoadLibrary fails for Windows XP SP3
Next: perfdisk?
From: Jenny White on 7 Jan 2010 04:46
To my surprise, everything is now fine.

Here is what happened:

My Toshiba Optical Drive Firmware app popped up and indicated that there was
a firmware update. So thinking that I was going to rebuild anyway, I figured
go ahead.

After a reboot, I thought I'd just check the Device Manager and Disk
Manager. Voila, they seemed fine.

I ran the SP3 update and that worked as well!!!

I'm supposing that because the Optical Drive (DVD/CD) has an entry under the
Network Key under Enum in CCS, that somehow the Optical Drive entry became
corrupted and as there are network implications with regard to the DVD, this
may have been the culprit that was preventing Ndis.sys from being updated
(i.e. access denied/preventd)

Again, just supposing, but it's the only thing that has changed and as
mentioned, now all is well.

"Jenny White" <jennywr(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:%23eetr3pjKHA.5604(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Trying to re-install SP3 (did so a few months back). Anyway, when I try to
> install now, I get ...\ndis.sys is in use...
>
> I've never had this before and almost every web hit I'm finding is talking
> about scsi driver updates and a plethora of gibberish which doesn't seem
> to have anything to do with this.
>
> I've disabled my AV, killed all unnecessary apps, stopped IISadmin etc.
>
> Still no go. I have no viruses or malware on my system (I just ran two
> complete scans with three different tools that I use).
>
> Security TaskManager and Process Explorer don't show anything untowards.
> I've even stopped the Workstation, Server, TCPIP helper and almost
> everything NON-Essential. Disabled the NIC etc.
>
> The file is not write protected, the System and Administrators group have
> FC. Cannot install in Safe Mode as well.
>
> What the heck am I missing?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ps: the reason for this is that when I launch Logical Disk Manager I only
> get to see my CDrom. I cannot launch the Disk defrag utils. No errors in
> the Event Log. Also, I use Perfect Disk, but of course it needs Logical
> Disk Manager as well. Again, the ONLY thing that shows up in Logical Disk
> Manager is my USB CDrom, no drives at all, but I can access these
> "apparently" fine.
>


 | 
Pages: 1
Prev: LoadLibrary fails for Windows XP SP3
Next: perfdisk?