I'm trying to fix a friend's laptop. He has a corrupt boot-critical file. I need a good copy of the corrupted file from a working Windows Vista 32-bit machine. The file in question is:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\WDf01000.sys
Thanks in advance if you can help us out!
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Found your file on my husband's old computer. Hope this works. If it doesn't work, let me know and I can email it to you.
Thank you! I'll give it a shot. Appreciate this.
I think the above file was from XP; the file sizes are significantly different. I didn't think it would work but it was worth a shot.I sent a note to friends in the states so I can probably rustle up this file from there.
Thanks for the suggestion, though, I do appreciate it.
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The laptop is in an endless repair loop. I ran SFC as well as Kaspersky Rescue disk and Defender Offline to check for viruses and HBCD as well as the built-in diagnostic tools, now that I can get to them. The only thing I see in the log is this one corrupt file.
Of course, the owner has no Vista install and/or repair disk for this Sony Vaio.
I have been able to get access to the drive, and renamed the offending file to .OLD so I think that if I can get a copy of the working .sys file, I'll be in business. However, I believe that has to be off a working Vista machine, not the disk.