This week's windows updating taking down PCs?

[sidmickmol]

At first I didn't think much of it, but this weekend I had a customer with a Celeron 800 running XP Pro, his system stated NTFS.sys was missing and to select the repair function from the setup CD. I am in the process of reintalling that one. Came into work this morning and 8 new Dell Optiplex 620s had the same failure. One user had booted up and it failed after the morning's Windows update.

These Dell's have our own corporate image on them. That image was updated the first of August. We have 20 or so of the same model Dell imaged before August that are fine even after the update so my thought was there is something wrong with our image. Then I rememberd my own customer with the same problem and wonder if there is a more widespread problem.

 

[bcastner]

What hotfix are you referring to?
The last published hotfix notice I have is for 9-12-2006
That did not involve ntfs.sys.

I am curious as to why you are reinstalling for this problem. The standard repair is a chkdsk /r under Recovery Console. You might consider an over-copy of a fresh ntfs.sys file as well.




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[captaincrunch00]

Get into the recovery console and expand the ntfs.sy_ file from the cd to replace the one that is giving you problems.

This shouldnt require a reinstall.

 

[linney]

There doesn't seem to be much evidence around the place that any particular Windows update is causing this type of problem.

It does seem mighty suspicious that your company has 8 machines producing this error. The story with the Celeron can probably be dismissed as just a coincident at this stage.

I think your thought about a faulty image should be investigated further, or any other that can differentiate between the Dells that do and those that don't have this error.

ntfs.sys missing or corrupt error message

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555531&sd=rss&spid=3223

As far as the recent Windows Updates are concerned there was a strange happening on my machines after updating and that was that the sound levels jumped up to a much higher level than before the updates.

 

[bcastner]

There is a SVCHOST using high CPU levels effect on machines with a corrupt Windows Update EDB from the 9/12/2006 hotfixes. There should be a "fix" for this, although stopping the service and deleting the EDB works fine.






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[bcastner]

I should have given the SVCHOST workaround:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916258

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[Glenn9999]

As far as the recent Windows Updates are concerned there was a strange happening on my machines after updating and that was that the sound levels jumped up to a much higher level than before the updates.

That one would be one of the new updates.

920872 I believe.