My Fujitsu A6020 laptop has been sent in for repair. I received a Fujitsu A6025 as a loaner. The A6020 had a PATA interface while the loaner has an SATA interface. When trying to boot, I had problems and ran the startup recovery option via the Fujitsu F12 BIOS boot option (it starts stuff on a partition which I think is the same or similar to the Vista DVD startup repair option).
After startup repair, I get to the point where I can see the Vista starting graphics and then it crashes. It seems to happen at CRCDISK.SYS. I see other posts from people with SATA drives and this CRCDISK.SYS driver crash issue. Some of the posts seem to refer to folks who upgraded a drive which is somewhat similar to my situation. With all this said, I cannot say for sure it relates to my use of SATA versus PATA. Since the A6025 is a different system, the motherboard is technically different. How different I don't know.
While many of the posts seem to be from naturally frustrated users, none seem to have any solid solution. I did see one post about upgrading a BIOS helping the CRCDISK crash issue. I will check my BIOS and try upgrading if a new version is available.
Does anyone have any idea why CRCDISK.SYS crashes? I wish there were more diagnostic messages immediately available. There was a code on the BSOD ... I'll try to get that by recreating the crash. I am able to boot the A6025 with a Vista installation from the recovery CDs, and I can access the SATA from that boot, so if there any steps I can do from that boot, I'd gladly try them out.
Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Tom
