Depending on what has actually happened if it is some form of an infection you might want to consider slaving the drive after cloning it and run scans using several anti-malware products to clean it up before trying "fixes". You will not know how many or what kinds of malware you are dealing with if you fix it to boot successfully. They may just come back in a couple of hours, minutes, or days. Jon From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] bsod 7b Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 19:55:13 -0500
I'm pretty sure it was 7b as as I even have it in the original message sent from the user- however, it is a 14" crt so it is possible I was not able to see the complete blue screen- I have ready many articles to indicate mbr virus, especially since all diagnostics (outside windows) indicate no hardware issues. Also when i boot using hirens bootloader it boots perfectly into the OS- something either in the mbr or perhaps boot.ini or some registry keys I feel were infected. I will login remotely tomorrow and check the event log or search for dumps thanks From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] bsod 7b Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 23:30:30 +0000 If the error message is not INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE, then it’s not STOP 0x7B If you want advice on fixing the issue, then you need to know what the issue is. <quote source=”Windows DDK”> Bug Check 0x7B: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE The INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bug check has a value of 0x0000007B. This bug check indicates that the Microsoft Windows operating system has lost access to the system partition during startup. </quote> Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2013 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] bsod 7b I'm no longer in front of the computer, so i don't remember the rest of the parameters, what I do remember specifically is NOT SEEING inaccessible boot device .
