.. not a good way to start the day ..

Recovery console running from the hard drive belched out:
0x7B Inaccessible_Boot_Device

Recovery console running from CD tickled my funny bone when it said it couldn't find the hard drive! Apparently, I need drivers for the Compaq Smart Array 5i Controller.

Luckily, my good ole' buddy Winternals ERD Commander didn't complain. Heck, it even alerted and recovered a damaged registry hive. C:\Winnt\System32\Config\System

Turns out, the system drive was out of free space which caused some trouble. Delete works using Winternals tool, but is painfully slow. After clearing a few hundred meg of free space, boot normally and purge the remaining temp files to reclaim 5.8Gig free space.

Perform the following steps from a command (or CMD) prompt:

cd\rentroll
del *.cdx

i don't have my notes on this fix, but may gather them here later

batch fix.bat

cd system32
attrib -s elitexuc32.exe
attrib -r elitexuc32.exe
del elitexuc32.exe
attrib -s rrmram.exe
attrib -r rrmram.exe
del rrmram.exe
attrib -s ozbccr32.dll
attrib -r ozbccr32.dll
del ozbccr32.dll
attrib -s frxocm.dll
attrib -r frxocm.dll
del frxocm.dll

08/19/2001  06:30a              11,593 eliteszb32.exe
08/19/2001  06:30a              11,593 elitewci32.exe

vcmnet11.exe - under windows directory

rauioj.exe@c:\windows\system32
nail.exe@c:\windows
wmgfeq.exe@c:\windows\system32
evmfch.exe@c:\windows\system32
rlsvszw.exe@c:\windows\system32
enkyxb.exe@c:\windows\system32
reojmh.exe@c:\windows\system32
vwzailkubk.exe@c:\windows
tdtb.exe@c:\windows
svcproc.exe@c:\windows
elitealp32.exe@c:\windows\system32
adlinstallwin32.exe@c:\windows\system32
adlinstallwin32.exe@c:
TASKMAN.exe@C:\WINDOWS
ilaijn.exe@C:\WINDOWS
ieuninst.exe@C:\WINDOWS
Q330994.exe@C:\WINDOWS

permissions were restricted on legacy_svcproc keys in registry - also kill off two other svcproc keys