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BSOD during WAIK Customization of WinPE Image


jclarkw

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The issue may be caused by the ShadowProtect snapshot driver (stcvsm.sys):

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So update or uninstall the tool and try it again.

THANKS; this looks like really useful information! I will try it...

One more ignorant follow-up question, if I may:

Is there a way to get a list of currently installed drivers? I can see that a couple of ShadowProtect services are running in the background (even though I didn't intend that), but I don't know how to tell if the driver, stcvsm.sys, is currently active. (Perhaps I can just temporarily disable it?)

At least I can (probably) determine the driver version number and see if an update makes any difference...

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The issue may be caused by the ShadowProtect snapshot driver (stcvsm.sys):

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So update or uninstall the tool and try it again.

Well, I uninstalled ShadowProtect Desktop and ran Ccleaner for good measure. stcvsm.sys no longer exists anywhere on the system. Nevertheless, I still get the same BSOD (described in detail earlier in this thread). Attached is the current minidump, in hopes that it will help.

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Just ouf of curiosity, ince the BSOD mentions NTFS.sys, I checked its version: 5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111). Note that there is a discussion of Stop x24 that may occur during a Windows Vista install at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935806; but none of its conditions seem to really apply to my case, especially since WinPE manifestly CAN access other NTFS directories without trouble. (In fact, I also get the BSOD if I try to examine the winpe\mount directory with Windows Explorer just after the imagex command the presumably populates it -- that would be while the WinPE command window is still open. After the BSOD restart the directory still exists but is empty.)

Mini120211-02.zip

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ok, also remove / update Kaspersky:

b4e407c4 804ef19f Ntfs!NtfsFsdDispatchWait+0x1c

b4e407d4 b9de1459 nt!IopfCallDriver+0x31

b4e407dc 804ef19f sr!SrPassThrough+0x31

b4e407ec b9e057a9 nt!IopfCallDriver+0x31

b4e40818 b9e07d56 fltmgr!FltpQueryInformationFile+0x99

b4e40860 b9e08329 fltmgr!SetStreamListStandardInformationFlags+0x7e

b4e40884 b77a3ade fltmgr!FltIsDirectory+0x4b

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.

b4e408ac b778ceb1 klif+0x18ade

b4e4091c b9df3ef3 klif+0x1eb1

b4e40984 b9df6338 fltmgr!FltpPerformPostCallbacks+0x1c5

b4e40998 b9df6867 fltmgr!FltpProcessIoCompletion+0x10

b4e409a8 b9df6d24 fltmgr!FltpPassThroughCompletion+0x89

b4e409d8 b9e03754 fltmgr!FltpLegacyProcessingAfterPreCallbacksCompleted+0x94

b4e40a14 804ef19f fltmgr!FltpCreate+0x26a

b4e40a24 80583220 nt!IopfCallDriver+0x31

b4e40b04 805bf488 nt!IopParseDevice+0xa12

b4e40b7c 805bba14 nt!ObpLookupObjectName+0x53c

b4e40bd0 80576feb nt!ObOpenObjectByName+0xea

b4e40d54 8054167c nt!NtQueryAttributesFile+0xf1

b4e40d54 7c90e514 nt!KiFastCallEntry+0xfc

0013f3dc 00000000 0x7c90e514

Your version is very old:

   
Image name: klif.sys
Timestamp: Tue Sep 22 12:32:04 2009

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ok, also remove / update Kaspersky:

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Image name: klif.sys

Timestamp: Tue Sep 22 12:32:04 2009

OK, this MIGHT have been installed by my current version of ZoneAlarm Extreme Security (9.3.037 -- not the latest because versions 10.x do not work properly on my system -- another investigation in progress...) OR it MIGHT have survived Ccleaner after a "clean" uninstall of ZAES 10.x. (I do remember that, after running, Ccleaner I searched for and deleted any remaining directories with names containing "ZoneAlarm" or "Checkpoint," but I forgot to check for "ZoneLabs." I do not remember whether ZA currently uses Kaspersky, or whether it was only in an earlier version. I will try to find out, but it may take a day or two. More later...

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ok, also remove / update Kaspersky:

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Your version is very old:

Image name: klif.sys

Timestamp: Tue Sep 22 12:32:04 2009

Dear MagicAndre1981 -- Thanks. You were dead right about klif.sys -- only your second try (details below just in case anyone else is intersted)!

Question: How can I figure this out for myself next time I'm hit with the BSOD (pretty rare in XP SP3)? I'm not an IT -- these modern systems are way over my head -- but I do have a lot of experience with Window plus considerably direct programming in Forth, C, Basic, Fortran, etc. Is there a tool that I can safely use to solve these problems for myself? (I was trying to get "Dumpchk.exe" from Debugging Tools in Windows SDK for x86, but it seems not to be there and anyhow is apparently not much good. Somebody else suggested http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html, but ZoneAlarm Extreme Security advises me that the site is "known to distribute spyware." )

Details: After uninstalling ShadowProtect 3.5 (GREAT software, but I need to update it anyhow) to get rid of stcvsm.sys (without solving the problem), I also clean-uninstalled Zone Alarm Extreme Security 9.3.037 to get rid of klif.sys. Then I uninstalled and re-installed WAIK, just in case that installation had been interrered with by ZAES. On re-installing WAIK, I found that the WinPE 2.0 build went smoothly -- no BSOD. To confirm I re-installed ZAES 9.3.037 (bringing back the old version of klif.sys, and another WinPE build immediately brought on the same BSOD. (I didn't try the newest version of ZAES, which I am told has a new version of the Kaspersky AV engine, but that's another story and is OK because I now have the PE boot CD that I wanted and no longer need WAIK.) Thanks again! -- jclarkw

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I found two ways to do myself at least part of what you did for me. Perhaps they will help some other readers:

BlueScreenView works like a champ and has the added benefit of no "install." It found both of my suspect drivers right away (after the fact, or course, since you had already pointed them out). Next time I think I can do it on my own with this tiny tool.

Next I tried the free-for-home-use version of WhoCrashed from Resplendence (referenced in one of the BlueScreenView reviews that I read), which requires the Windows Debugging Tools ("http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols/debuggers/dbg_x86_6.11.1.404.msi" for my version of Windows), but which gives even more specific results. Having also installed those tools, I now see Dumpchk.exe in the Debugging Tools root directory. Dumpchk output even shows up now in BlueScreenView.

I even figured out how to incorporate Win XP SP3 symbols, although not those for the 3rd-party drivers, into the Debugging Tools (and into Dumpchk) by downloading them from "http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols/packages/windowsxp/WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-symbols-full-ENU.exe." (WhoCrashed won't incorporate symbol stores unless you pay for the "Professional" version.)

Both free progarms seem to be winners, although WhoCrashed takes a lot more overhead.

Best Regards. - jclarkw

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I use WinDbg from the Windows Debugging Tools to get the cause.

Thanks again, MagicAndre1981. I'd like to give you credit for solving my problem, but I don't immediately see how... -- jclarkw

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