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

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

By: pbkelly

pbkelly — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:01:34 +0000

Thank you, this worked. I hate when my computer doesn’t work. I take it personally. Love you.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:49:07 +0000

Thanks for the great advice…I have been working on trying to fix this for 3 days and this finally helped me get to a place where I can get to my desktop. I’m still having some system issues, but I plan to re-install. I’m just happy I can get to my files.

By: oli

oli — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:43:56 +0000

Solved it, somehow:

at the beginning i pressed F8 and tried the different start modes like save mode, one of them prevented the system to restart, but the mouse and keyboard didnt worked, so after a while, on one of the other modes I pulled a USB-mouse in.
And it worked, keyboard still doesnt works but at least i can save my important files and install the system new

By: oli

oli — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:19:49 +0000

I have the same problem as Sarra , i did everything and it worked, well i thought, the system is restaring frequently after building up the desktop,i cant even move the arrow, what can i do know?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:37:54 +0000

This is brilliant! Worked like magic today on a client’s Compaq laptop that had a failed Vista SP2 installation with the black screen. Thanks!!

By: ahmadshah

ahmadshah — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:45:14 +0000

will it delete all my files i have important stuff on it i dunt want it to be gone

i have no backup of these files

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:24:21 +0000

haha…never mind! I think I got it.

Just have to change X:\ to C:\

and the way to do that is C:

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:48:52 +0000

Hi can anyone help me with this?

What do we do if wen we type ren default default.old or any other “ren” command, it says the file is being used by another process?