Unable to boot: vsflt67.sys
A few days ago, I installed TIH2012 upgrade and PlusPack 2012, and today found my computer had shut down and will not boot - vsflt67.sys is reported as corrupted.
Original Win7 install disc 'repair' did not help. I do have a full backup a few weeks old I can revert to but I'd sure rather not have to do that.
The discussions I see regarding vsflt67.sys on the forum seem to assume my system boots, which it does not.
Is there anything I can do short of reverting to an old backup, losing my current system drive state entirely?
I also do have a cloned drive of my system drive that is 2 months old, I can boot with that and tinker with my current (nonbooting) system drive, but what steps would I take in that case?
thanks for any advice.
Rob
Update: I booted off off my last cloned drive, and accessed my non-booting system drive via an external enclosure. I moved the vsflt67.sys file out of system32/drivers to hide it from the system, and after than my drive became bootable again.
So, got my system back , but now what? I assume TIH2012 requires that file, but I'm not sure I should reinstall or repair without more info.
Thanks Pat, didn't see the attached pdf you mentioned.
As I mentioned in my update, I hid the vsflt67.sys file, but did not touch the registry. Perhaps I'm in an unstable state now, not sure.
Yes, if you removed the sys file but you didn't update the registry, and your system is working, I wouldn't worry too much about remnants in the registry, until you have a BSOD...
In fact, I am surprised the system didn't crash, but maybe it is because you had already uninstalled ATI.
Personally, I would go and remove the entries from the registry.
Update 2: Thanks again Pat for your comments. After I got the system running again by deleting the driver, I tried running the repair on TI2012, then trying to uninstall. This resulted in a BSOD, and on boot I had the same problem with the vsflt67.sys driver. I had to repeat the entire exercise of booting off a clone backup system drive and deleting that driver again. I suspect the repair was bad idea now.
Now there is no Acronis product in control panel add/remove, and start menu has my TH2011 items (although the app icon is not displaying correctly) I tried to run that and it launches with splash window but spins forever.
Now I seem to be stuck, can't install, can't uninstall or repair.
Tried to use Acronis support chat, but that put me on hold for 45 mins before I gave up. Opened an email support ticket on this. Maybe they'll have answers.
Restart the downloaded install program and if the program finds a version is installed, you will be offered an uninstall option.
Robert,
you can maybe restore an image backup where everything was working, then uninstall, the follow the PDF mentioned here to clean up your system: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/34271
Thanks Grover and Pat for more tips!
It gets weirder.... I tried to run Acronis True Image 2012 cleanup utility, and for some reason that exe instead launches another application on my system. (Derivative Software's 'TouchDesigner' fwiw) How crazy is that?
I do have an image that's 2 weeks old, I installed a ton of stuff since then, so resisting that move, but may have to. I don't have TI2012 on that image, so that would be a definitive solution.
thanks again for the various ideas and tips.
btw - Grover, when I run the TI2012 uninstall, it gets almost to the end and then rolls back and reports failure.
Since the cleanup utility is having problems on my system, I may have to attempt this manually. I'm cloning my system drive now before attempting brain surgery in the registry, yikes.