mikex Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 My desktop machine hangs at xmasbus.sys, I googled and found bad hdd or bad cdrom. Has anyone had this? I have a drive to replace with, 120 in a drawer. Never felt like going through the insall/update circus.xmasbus.sys who would name a file xmasbus?Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robroy Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Do you have alcohol 120 installedxmasbus.sysappears to be a problem in alcohol120don't know if this will helpIf you do try uninstalling before you change out hdgood luck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikex Posted August 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 Can't get windows to load normally, safe mode, safe mode with networking, or command prompt.If this was 98 I could pop in a boot disk get to the file in dos, replace it or uninstall.M Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spoiledtoo Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 I am by no means a "techie" but I had the same problem... This is how I fixed it. After waiting all night with my computer off, I was able to get through to F8...I finally was able to boot to the safe mode - dos command prompt. (I know very little about dos too)I then went to c:\program files\alcohol\alcohol 120 and got through to the Alc program.In the stupid Alc program I was able to get to my system settings which allowed me to get into the system restore area. I then restored to a month earlier and then used add remove programs to remove the Alc program. This was sooo frustrating and I hope this will help someone! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CurlingSteve Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Will your XP Install CD let you boot to the Recovery Console?The Recovery Console is similar to a Command Prompt.That may let you repair the problem.Description of the Windows XP Recovery ConsoleAnother handy tool to have around is a CD that boots into XP.Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikex Posted November 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 It was a corrupt alcohol 120 file for me.M Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikex Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 It was a corrupt alcohol 120 file for me.Mxmasbus.sys is corrupt again. I am thinking of a repair install. If this is a no go then fresh install.M Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cell Phone Jammer Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 The best way to get banned is by spamming. -TT75- Quote Link to post Share on other sites
irregularjoe Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 By the way, the best method to secure yourself from irritative calls and spy devices is to use <a href="http://www.myspammerstore.com/">Phone Jammer</a>That's nice to know.Now tell me how this is relevent to the post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Joe joe joe; do not feed the trolls.Ah well.Xmasbus.sys and xmasscsi.sys are part of the virtual drive used by alcohol 120%It is well know to have issues with such things as installing service packs and some other software; resulting in a non bootable system .It is highly recommended that before attempting a major install, or update that you disable all virtual drives. That said, there are two approaches that may work.One is to disconnect all optical drives. It often happens that the virtual drive is actually conflicting with them. Then once you are in windows delete the virtual drive and then you can shut down and reconnect the power and data cables to your cdrom and dvd drives. The other is to try a repair install. Often though the virtual drive will cause windows installer to view the hard drive as corrupted (Bad sectors) and choke. Thus leaving you with the option of wiping your drive, repartition and clean install. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
irregularjoe Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 Joe joe joe; do not feed the trolls.Ah well.Xmasbus.sys and xmasscsi.sys are part of the virtual drive used by alcohol 120%It is well know to have issues with such things as installing service packs and some other software; resulting in a non bootable system .It is highly recommended that before attempting a major install, or update that you disable all virtual drives. That said, there are two approaches that may work.One is to disconnect all optical drives. It often happens that the virtual drive is actually conflicting with them. Then once you are in windows delete the virtual drive and then you can shut down and reconnect the power and data cables to your cdrom and dvd drives. The other is to try a repair install. Often though the virtual drive will cause windows installer to view the hard drive as corrupted (Bad sectors) and choke. Thus leaving you with the option of wiping your drive, repartition and clean install.Sorry..... I didn't see the no feeding sign and I had some 10 year old fish I wanted to get rid of. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted October 7, 2009 Report Share Posted October 7, 2009 That's all right. I feed the trolls into the shredder and create chum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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