About a year ago I reinstalled Vista 64 (Ultimate) when the HDD died in this laptop = an HP dv9000. I replaced the HDD of course.
A couple months later, I started to get freesing when Vista would start to boot up. It went through POST just fine, but the instant the Status Bar and Microsoft logo would start to appear, it hung and stayed hung.
Occasionally, it would boot up.
Starting to get really, really annoying. Last week it took a couple hours or repeated trying to get it to boot.
I found during some searching that it's caused by a crcdisk.sys error of some sort, evident when trying to boot into safe mode... it hangs when it loads that file.
NO solution anywhere to be found, short of reinstalling. Which.... might not work so well, since it does the same thing when booting off the disk.
Anyone heard of this? Anyone found a fix?
Also.. the laptop frequently does not come out of hybernation/sleep mode when opening the lid...