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Sptd.sys problem

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news.tiscali

Flightless Bird
Hi all

I have problem with file sptd.sys when start
provisional mode. Renamed this file, but bosd:
(0xF789EA98,0xc00000034,0x00000000,
0x00000000), continues to appear.

Thanks

Regards
 
P

Pegasus [MVP]

Flightless Bird
"news.tiscali" <news@tiscali.nospam> said this in news item
news:4b5ed23b$0$1122$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it...
> Hi all
>
> I have problem with file sptd.sys when start
> provisional mode. Renamed this file, but bosd:
> (0xF789EA98,0xc00000034,0x00000000,
> 0x00000000), continues to appear.
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards


"Provisional mode"? Safe mode? You could boot into the Recovery Console and
rename sptd.sys to sptd.bad so that it won't get loaded.
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
news.tiscali wrote:

> I have problem with file sptd.sys when start
> provisional mode. Renamed this file, but bosd:
> (0xF789EA98,0xc00000034,0x00000000,
> 0x00000000), continues to appear.


SCSI Pass-Through Direct (sptd.sys), which is a deliberately misleading name
for how the product is actually used, is a kernel-mode driver installed by
several "cheater" products that attempt to hide an emulated CD/DVD drive
from being scanned. It is used to thwart some virulent seeker copy
protection schemes that try to hunt down if the program (usually a game) is
on a real CD/DVD disc or from an image of one (whereupon they attempt to
disable those emulated devices or simply refuse to start the program).

For example, Daemon-Tools comes with sptd.sys (and, as I recall, you didn't
have an option to not include it in the DT install). Also, when you
uninstall these products, often they do NOT uninstall the sptd.sys driver.
You have to do that manually to purge the remnant files and registry
entries, use an uninstaller that recorded the product's install (so it knows
what got changed to then remove it), like Zsoft Uninstaller, or use the
uninstaller provided for sptd.sys itself (but which is difficult to find
when you start hunting around for info on this driver).

http://daemonpro-help.com/?id=932
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/SCSI+Pass+Through+Direct

Trying to find the uninstaller or even the author of this driver is
something of a creative and irksome exercise. They certainly seem to want
to hide who they are and the products that use them often do not provide
direct links to the author. The driver's author is at:

http://www.duplexsecure.com/home

Read their FAQ page. This is also where they put the links to their removal
programs. If you are going to remove SPTD then you might as well as also
uninstall whatever product you installed that uses it.
 
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news.tiscali

Flightless Bird
Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
> "news.tiscali" <news@tiscali.nospam> said this in news item
> news:4b5ed23b$0$1122$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it...
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have problem with file sptd.sys when start
>> provisional mode. Renamed this file, but bosd:
>> (0xF789EA98,0xc00000034,0x00000000,
>> 0x00000000), continues to appear.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Regards

>
> "Provisional mode"? Safe mode? You could boot into the Recovery
> Console and rename sptd.sys to sptd.bad so that it won't get loaded.


I renamed sptd.sys of the normal mode, restarting safe mode, but bsod
appears, don't appears warning to "press key esc" for no loading sptd.sys,
but however another bsod appears.

Thanks

Regards
 
N

news.tiscali

Flightless Bird
I removed the file Sptd.sys with duplex utilities, but
when reboot in safe mode, bsod appears.


Other ideas?

Thanks

Regards
 
D

db

Flightless Bird
try and see if windows
loads in safe mode.

if so, then you have a
chance to modify the
configuration.

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"news.tiscali" <news@tiscali.nospam> wrote in message
news:4b5ed23b$0$1122$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it...
> Hi all
>
> I have problem with file sptd.sys when start
> provisional mode. Renamed this file, but bosd:
> (0xF789EA98,0xc00000034,0x00000000,
> 0x00000000), continues to appear.
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
 
J

John Keiser

Flightless Bird
If you don't remember what program installed sptd.sys to beign with, did you
try installing Daemon tools lite and immediately uninstalling?

"news.tiscali" <news@tiscali.nospam> wrote in message
news:4b5f22af$0$1118$4fafbaef@reader2.news.tin.it...
>
> I removed the file Sptd.sys with duplex utilities, but
> when reboot in safe mode, bsod appears.
>
>
> Other ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards
>
>
>
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
news.tiscali wrote:

> I removed the file Sptd.sys with duplex utilities, but when reboot in safe
> mode, bsod appears.


Is the edition of Windows that you use (Home, Professional, 2002 Media
Center, x64) a secret? If the Home edition, you cannot run the uninstaller
until you reboot into Windows' Safe Mode since that's how you get under the
Administrator account. The uninstaller requires you be an admin-level user.
If the x64 edition, did you make sure to download the x64 version of their
uninstaller?

During the boot into Windows' safe mode, you will see a list of drivers
getting loaded. There will be a pause asking if you want to load sptd.sys.
Did you select No? If you don't see a white-on-black screen appear with a
scrolling list of drivers getting loaded, run msconfig.exe, BOOT.INI tab,
select the line that specifies your OS partition, and enable the /SOS
option. This displays the driver names as they are loaded. This option is
enabled by default when you select the [VGA] option in the boot menu (by
pressing F8 during startup).

Just how did you come to the conclusion that sptd.sys was the cause of your
BSOD? You only gave a little bit of info displayed on the BSOD screen.

If you can boot into normal mode for Windows, do you have a system restore
point before whenever you could not boot into safe mode?

When booting into the boot menu (F8 key on startup), have you yet tried
selecting "Use last known good configuration"?
 
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