Vista crashed and system restore fails

After installing updates, Vista crashed because a driver, drvmcdb.sys is
missing or corrupt. System Restore fails, and MS tech support seems to want
to charge me $59 for a week-old install.

The Repair option also failed. I'm not sure how to get drvmcdb.sys in the
drivers directory.

"infael" <> wrote in message
news:2C3E177C-5548-49E1-AE18-...
> After installing updates, Vista crashed because a driver, drvmcdb.sys is
> missing or corrupt. System Restore fails, and MS tech support seems to
> want
> to charge me $59 for a week-old install.
>
> The Repair option also failed. I'm not sure how to get drvmcdb.sys in the
> drivers directory.


Press f8 soon after boot, and choose the 'Last known good configuration'
option

--
Jon

That did not work either.

"Jon" wrote:

> "infael" <> wrote in message
> news:2C3E177C-5548-49E1-AE18-...
> > After installing updates, Vista crashed because a driver, drvmcdb.sys is
> > missing or corrupt. System Restore fails, and MS tech support seems to
> > want
> > to charge me $59 for a week-old install.
> >
> > The Repair option also failed. I'm not sure how to get drvmcdb.sys in the
> > drivers directory.
>
>
> Press f8 soon after boot, and choose the 'Last known good configuration'
> option
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>
>

Try system restore in safe mode (if you haven't already)

"infael" <> wrote in message
news:2C3E177C-5548-49E1-AE18-...
> After installing updates, Vista crashed because a driver, drvmcdb.sys is
> missing or corrupt. System Restore fails, and MS tech support seems to
> want
> to charge me $59 for a week-old install.
>
> The Repair option also failed. I'm not sure how to get drvmcdb.sys in the
> drivers directory.

Found the problem. I googled drvmcdb.sys and found many others had the exact
same problem as I. After installing Vista, Vista tells you it blocked a
program due to incompatibility and recommends uninstalling the program, Roxio
Sonic DLA. Doing that prevented me from being able to get into Vista at all,
through any manner or mode. I had to go all the way back almost to the
beginning of my system restore points to the point where I had uninstalled
Sonic DLA. Thanks MS, for labelling the restore points! I'm back in Vista.

Couldn't find a patch, and Roxio wants you to buy their program. So I've
just left Sonic alone.

Thanks for your help guys!