Posts Tagged ‘Windows’
Hey all…
I am writting this little article to help those who getting this annoying error on Windows Vista.
Blue Screen Of Death: STOP: 0×0000C1F5
Well as you all may know, rule of the thumb is: Something goes horribly wrong with Windows, re-install windows! [that should fix all your problems, and create new ones!]
But with this one, it’s a little bit different! As most of the websites [which you have searched till you get to this one] have pointed out that with this error, the only way possible to fix it, is to actually format the harddrive, and I dont think that they meant just a clean re-install.
However! Good news, you actually do not even need to re-install windows! You wanna know how, keep on reading!
Some points which you should know before we continue on:
1) This is a bug which has nothing to do with you, and Microsoft is aware of it. Yet, there are no actual fixes for it, so either you are lucky that you haven’t got it, or (most probably, not so much since you are reading this) that you are trying to deal with it….
2) If you just follow this article, step by step, hopefully (all my 10 fingers crossed) nothing will happen to your computer.
3) MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE YOUR RECOVERY DVD AROUND YOU, OR PRE-INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER (otherwise, you are pretty much screwed!)
4) This BSOD (blue screen of death) is caused by a corruption in the $TxfLog which the Common Log File System (Clfs.sys) driver cannot fix (for some stupid reasons). Having said this, since the recovery disk actually needs this specific file to continue on, it wouldn’t really help you in fixing your computer (neither does Safe Mode!)
The Solution (finally!)…
Well, the summary is this: Get rid of the file, and let the recovery disk do the rest for you (as in make a new one for you!)
But the question is how you would actually do that, without having any sort of access to your files/directory?
Well, thats where Linux kicks in. No need to get into all these technical details, but here’s what you gotta do:
1) Get a copy of PartedMagic (it’s free and opensource). Grab a copy here (its only about 75Mb!).
2) Burn it onto a CD or copy to USB (it’s a little bit more complicated than just burning the CD, so just burn the CD)…
3) Real work begins here:
Boot from the CD. Choose all the default ones, since its pretty straight forward and works on most machines. Once inside the program, choose the Mount Utility from the Tools menu, and mount your C drive (if it’s not already mounted). Then make sure that you are in the correct drive. Once done that, then again make sure that you are in the right drive…the last thing you want is to actually delete some other thing!
Then open the terminal window, and type the following: (without the ~>)
~> cd windows/\$Extend/RmMetadata
Note that these folders are hidden, and you won’t be able to see them using the ‘ls’ command. Now recursively delete these specific ‘$TxfLog’:
~> rm -rf \$TxfLog
then
~> ls
to confirm that they are deleted. Then reboot the computer. Now your problem with your BSOD has been sorted, but wait: “My computer doesn’t boot!”…I’m not done yet
Put your recovery disc in, and tell it to repair your computer. It may take some time, and reboot a couple of times, but it’s all cool. If Vista tells you that it hadn’t been turned off properly, just tell it to proceed normally, as in choose “boot normally”.
So now you are done. I am just wishing that this article has helped you all out.
Mo