Comments on: Windows Vista SP2 Won’t Boot; Error 0xc0000034: Fix

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:17:38 +0000

I did the described procedure once (with ‘cd /d C;\windows\system32\config’ as first command). Everything went OK, but afterwards it still wouldn’t boot. As the explanation says, I repeated the procedure. But when I typed the command ‘ren default default.old’ again, the command prompt give me ‘A duplicate file name exists, or the file cannot be found’. What should I do?

Thank in advance!

By: Ken Trout

Ken Trout — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:39:51 +0000

I just followed the instructions as listed above and I want to thank you for the great help, for it worked without any hiccups. I had tried every boot mode, over 16 restore points without any success, but this worked perfectly.

Again, my thanks to all of you.

By: Corbatjov

Corbatjov — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:07:59 +0000

If you stuck in a endless “attempts repair” try this:

1. Boot up with Vista install disc Starting up without the disc should be fine, but if you don’t have it, skip to step 4
2. Select the necessary options and hit Next
3. Hit Next again once I had the OS selected
4. Then it went to searching for problems…

At this point, quickly press Escape or click Cancel – time is of the essence here.

5. Then it came up with a box to say Restore or Cancel. (Usually I would hit restore and it would just say attempting repairs forever)
6. Instead, hit cancel, and it will come up with saying it couldn’t fix the issue.
7. At the bottom there are 2 options, “View log of diagnostics” or “View Advanced Options” (hit the second one)
8. This brings up that menu that you should’ve gotten even if you hit restore. From here you can choose to either restore, complete pc restore, etc.

This worked for me. After this I used the commands located above and damn, it works (no thanks to microsoft )

Thanks!

By: Felipe Feto

Felipe Feto — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:12:02 +0000

Perfect help man !

By: tfosorcimitna

tfosorcimitna — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:54:34 +0000

My last windows system running on this crapy vista has the same problems the second time. Why my last windows system? Because I have changed all my home and office computers to mac or macbook and found they are no such annoying problems since 3 years ago. I still struggling how to resolve this vista problem. I may have to just dumped the machine and forget about windows computing environment.

By: isak ravn

isak ravn — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:33:19 +0000

Thanks mate… you saved me

By: Eithne Dooley

Eithne Dooley — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:18:28 +0000

Thank you so much! Thought my PC would be a write-off or best-case scenario I would lose all my files but it worked perfectly! I had to change the first command to cd /d c:\windows\system32\config as above and then did everything else and like magic it’s fixed!

By: Sonya Haynes

Sonya Haynes — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:08:09 +0000

helpful stuff, thank you. myself I have just found this cool CD for booting Windows, testing it right now.

By: Janie Cross

Janie Cross — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:47:54 +0000

btw I found a good Windows Boot CD, works nicely and is easy to use

By: dan

dan — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:28:43 +0000

G33z!!
my com (laptop) keeps bugging me “important update is ready to install…” (SP2) or what ever the msg was. since i also have this other bugging problem (Wireless network, signal issues) with my com or is it vista, i cant tell since its the only com running vista (presumably its vista), so i decided to install this “important update” vista SP2, which one would assume should fix errors associated to SP1 or otherwise improve system performance in general. However, that was a HUGE mistake thanks to the installation of MS Window Vista SP2, my computer now runs in an endless loop with a slight glimse of the “blue screen of death”, even after i tried to restore the com from the restored point it created before the installation (and used up) but with no result.
only to find out that there are a huge no. of people having the same propblem.

hence i found this link and tried to follow the instruction by Arun Kumar, but come to a problem as Cory and Steven (25th feb 10)…
… X:\> windows\system32\config\ren default default.old => “the process cannot access file because it is being used by another process”
my command prompt has an X:\ windows\system32\ instead of C:\ …
i tried to change the dir to “C:\” by “X:\>cd C:\” but didnt work.

any suggestions? thanks

*** by the way i dont have a recovery disc, but after starting the com and pressing “del” i arrived at “Windows Boot Manager” pressed F8 for advanced option come to “advanced boot options” its has a variety of options first being
- repair your computer
(since i have this option, does it mean that i dont need the recovery disc? its build in or something?)
- safe mode (x3)
- enable boot logging
- last known good conf (tried it dont work)
- dir services restore mode …etc

Choose repair your computer and arrived at “system recovery options”, is this the same as the “WinRE” in ponit number 3 under “FIX” ?

logged in as admin and was given the choice of the following:
- startup repair
- sysrem restore (no restore pt)
- windows complete pc restore
- win mem diagnostinc tool
- command prompt (used to tried out those commands but got stuck at ren default => processed used by another

……………..

ps. sorry about this lengthy msg, i look forward to any positive reply to this problem,
regards