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Hello,
lately I have been having a few problems with D-Tools...
I have been running D-Tools 3.47 parallel for a while without experiencing any problems. But then I needed to install daemon tools 3.29 because of a fastboot image that doesn't work otherwise (or at least not that I know)...
well, the installation finished with the message "can't initialize scsi-drivers" or something, so I rebooted and got a Blue Screen Of Death, saying that an phyical image had to be created because some drivespace had been accessed that shouldn't or something, and that I should reboot and look if it would be working then and if it didn't I should access safemode and uninstall recent software and contact the delevopers and all that blabla. I'm german and run a german version of XP so it's kinda hard to translate that stuff 1:1.
(I don't know if it is related, but I had been running the Nero ImageDrive because I wanted to test if it would work with that, but forgot to quit/disable it before attempting to install 3.29. The installation had a long pause until I finally noticed I had been running imagedrive and quit it. Then it finished with the above error.)
After a few reboots because I forgot the key I needed to press to enter safemode (which all failed after the login screen with a BSOD) I uninstalled 3.29 and after rebooting I now got the annoying "new device found: plug and play bios extension" message. I actually tried to solve this by letting the hardware manager do its installation routine, but guess what: it always resulted in the same BSOD. I then looked into the device manager and first disabled, and after that didn't work uninstalled the SCSI/RAID device that made trouble (st3mp28 it was called by the way). I afterwards installed 3.47 without any problems to clean up the failed installation attempts of 3.29.
But even after rebooting then - the "New Device Found" message did not vanish but came up initially. When I look into the device manager though, no device can be seen and the message disappears as well. I could probably live with this but I imagine I would get severely annoyed by this after some time, so help on solving this would be appreciated. I already checked a few other topics that said I should delete the system32/drivers/dtscsi.sys and reboot, but this didn't help either.
Ah, I just noticed that, even after removing all instances of D-Tools now, all that installing/uninstalling left me with another virtual drive that I cannot disable. Can I just go ahead and disable/uninstall it in the device manager, or are there other things I must do as well?
So, to make a long story short, I have the following problems:
1. New Device Found through 3.29 that leads to a BSOD when I try to install it but didn't disappear when I disabled the referring scsi controller.
2. A virtual drive (Generic STEALTH DVD SCSI CdRom) that appears kinda lost and that I'm unable to remove through means of software.
3. I cannot install D-Tools 3.29 because that would lead to the feared BSOD as well, which results in three questions:
a) how to get it to work/install without screwing my system
OR
b) is there an alternate way to mount fastboot images
OR
c) how to create selfboot images that newer versions of daemon-tools can understand?
I hope these questions aren't too hard to solve =/
A few obligatory system specs if needed:
OS winxp SP2
AMD Athlon64 3200+
512mb ram
nvidia 6600 GT
I also use alcohol but I don't think it's related.
Thank you for reading and trying to help me.
(and sorry if there should be any weird grammar/spellingconstructs)
lately I have been having a few problems with D-Tools...
I have been running D-Tools 3.47 parallel for a while without experiencing any problems. But then I needed to install daemon tools 3.29 because of a fastboot image that doesn't work otherwise (or at least not that I know)...
well, the installation finished with the message "can't initialize scsi-drivers" or something, so I rebooted and got a Blue Screen Of Death, saying that an phyical image had to be created because some drivespace had been accessed that shouldn't or something, and that I should reboot and look if it would be working then and if it didn't I should access safemode and uninstall recent software and contact the delevopers and all that blabla. I'm german and run a german version of XP so it's kinda hard to translate that stuff 1:1.
(I don't know if it is related, but I had been running the Nero ImageDrive because I wanted to test if it would work with that, but forgot to quit/disable it before attempting to install 3.29. The installation had a long pause until I finally noticed I had been running imagedrive and quit it. Then it finished with the above error.)
After a few reboots because I forgot the key I needed to press to enter safemode (which all failed after the login screen with a BSOD) I uninstalled 3.29 and after rebooting I now got the annoying "new device found: plug and play bios extension" message. I actually tried to solve this by letting the hardware manager do its installation routine, but guess what: it always resulted in the same BSOD. I then looked into the device manager and first disabled, and after that didn't work uninstalled the SCSI/RAID device that made trouble (st3mp28 it was called by the way). I afterwards installed 3.47 without any problems to clean up the failed installation attempts of 3.29.
But even after rebooting then - the "New Device Found" message did not vanish but came up initially. When I look into the device manager though, no device can be seen and the message disappears as well. I could probably live with this but I imagine I would get severely annoyed by this after some time, so help on solving this would be appreciated. I already checked a few other topics that said I should delete the system32/drivers/dtscsi.sys and reboot, but this didn't help either.
Ah, I just noticed that, even after removing all instances of D-Tools now, all that installing/uninstalling left me with another virtual drive that I cannot disable. Can I just go ahead and disable/uninstall it in the device manager, or are there other things I must do as well?
So, to make a long story short, I have the following problems:
1. New Device Found through 3.29 that leads to a BSOD when I try to install it but didn't disappear when I disabled the referring scsi controller.
2. A virtual drive (Generic STEALTH DVD SCSI CdRom) that appears kinda lost and that I'm unable to remove through means of software.
3. I cannot install D-Tools 3.29 because that would lead to the feared BSOD as well, which results in three questions:
a) how to get it to work/install without screwing my system
OR
b) is there an alternate way to mount fastboot images
OR
c) how to create selfboot images that newer versions of daemon-tools can understand?
I hope these questions aren't too hard to solve =/
A few obligatory system specs if needed:
OS winxp SP2
AMD Athlon64 3200+
512mb ram
nvidia 6600 GT
I also use alcohol but I don't think it's related.
Thank you for reading and trying to help me.
(and sorry if there should be any weird grammar/spellingconstructs)
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