Subj : Re: win7 boot stops at disk.sys
To   : August Abolins
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri Mar 21 2025 06:50:04

On 20 Mar 2025, August Abolins said the following...

 AA> Common wisdom seems to indicate that the problem driver is  
 AA> usually the one *after* disk.sys.   But.. I can't be sure what  
 AA> that next driver it was trying to load.

If you can boot into to a command prompt on that actual machine you can try running the System File Checker utility:

sfc /scannow


If you can't get that machine booted into a command prompt, you can try taking the HD out and mounting it into another Win 7 machine.  If the drive letter was E: then you can run:

sfc /scannow /offbootdir=E:\ /offwindir E:\Windows

That'll check all of the Windows system files and replace any corrupted versions.  Failing that booting to a Windows 7 CD/USB and doing an installation repair could also work.


Jay

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