Recovering Windows and/or system restore after faulty driver install

I installed HP's sound driver yesterday and it BSOD-ed my windows and crashed it. System repair didn't help. System restore is corrupted, and startup recovery just says patch is preventing windows from starting. When I try to boot, it loads up to certain amount of time and then in just BSOD-s to generic error code.

I disabled the new driver in registry, but it didn't help. I then installed another windows copy on a new partition, and tried copying over the registry and system32\drivers folder, still the same issue.

Any further ideas? If I could somehow just use the files from system restore that are not corrupted, and leave the rest out, that would help but I don't know how to do that.

srgb

Posted 2013-01-14T09:23:58.643

Reputation: 454

The code you have provided typically can be for not understanding any device. I suggest you unplug everything other than barebones to see if the issue persists. At what point does it BSOD exactly and, does the issue persists when loading into Safe Mode? – Dave – 2013-01-14T09:35:11.910

safe mode doesn't work. it crashes at a certain point, so I can't clean boot in any way I know. Is there a way to clean boot by modifying the registry? It seems that bsod happens after all drivers have been loaded. – srgb – 2013-01-14T09:41:57.620

it stops at classpnp.sys. but I deleted everything from drivers folder and pasted over the ones from new installation and it didn't change a thing – srgb – 2013-01-14T09:44:18.893

IDT High definition audio codec. I disabled the driver in registry – srgb – 2013-01-14T09:47:15.943

It's a laptop, no external devices. – srgb – 2013-01-14T09:48:54.100

– Dave – 2013-01-14T10:01:12.327

windows 7 home premium 64bit – srgb – 2013-01-14T10:03:38.303

Last known good config? – Bali C – 2013-01-14T10:09:35.190

Answers

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Reinstallation was the only way to go unfortunatly. I tried replacing windows files, reintegrating registry.. nothing gave stable results. This is not a solution, as I was trying to fix the computer, not reinstall OS.

srgb

Posted 2013-01-14T09:23:58.643

Reputation: 454

reinstalling operating system is not a solution. and in my question it was clear that I already tried to repair. Of course I knew that reinstalling my OS would fix the problem , I'm not an idiot. I wanted to fix the problem without having to resort to that. – srgb – 2013-01-21T15:40:01.787

I think you will need to perform a repair, or even a re-installation.

You can download the ISO for Windows 7 on another machine, burn it to disk and see if this gives you the options you need to either repair or re-install.

Dave

Posted 2013-01-14T09:23:58.643

Reputation: 24 199

you will notice that system repair didn't help in my first post. as to reinstall, I know that reinstaling windows would fix it, but the goal was to avoid reinstall. thanks for suggestions. – srgb – 2013-01-14T19:12:18.133

Just try to take battery out of board, wait 2 minutes and then put it back and see if it helps. – Dave – 2013-01-14T19:52:21.657

1It sounds like Netismine you have tried every possible piece of troubleshooting I can think of. Personally, I would rip out the hard drive, chuck it in another computer, back up anything important and do a reformat. Not to mention it will also get rid of all the bloatware HP puts on their machines. Try to think of it as starting fresh for 2013 ;) – sleepyscene – 2013-01-15T15:06:59.340

That's what I did in the end. It was troublesome cause I had my woking environment set up. Ironic thing is that faulty driver was supplied by HP support staff. – srgb – 2013-01-20T10:00:24.843

Messing up everything, then trying too fix it after nothing would work correctly on restarting your PC. Messing with registry, you are trying to paste it back together. Come-on, you needed to try SlimDrivers Program. I say you needed to enter info on the website of laptop,serial # such to find your laptop listed there. Get proper installs, re-installing windows (R) i did to fix my problems but burning up alot of free space on my drive. CCleaner is the program for cleaning up the registry.

Brian

Posted 2013-01-14T09:23:58.643

Reputation: 1