My host machine lost power and after reboot the Windows 2008 virtual machine hosted in it, dumps a blue screen on boot. If I try SafeMode, it gets stuck on loading \Windows\system32\drivers\crcdisk.sys – it waits for a few minutes and then bluescreens.
It's a pretty important dev machine and I would love to somehow recover it without wiping it off and reinstalling – there is a bunch of software and will take me a day or more to reinstall everything.
Is there a way just to repair corrupted files? I tried install disk and chose "Repair computer" but it only offers to restore from backup, which I don't have 🙁
Any ideas would be highly appreciated!
- Andrey
Best Answer
You should be able to use an image of the install CD to go to the repair console and from there run chkdsk. If not you could also try running a BartPE repair disk and run chkdsk from that. The Windows install CD should also allow you to run fixmbr and fixboot, if needed, but any repair efforts can possibly end up damaging it completely.
Is the install CD taking you to the restore from backup not letting you go to the repair console at all?