I'm becoming increasingly worried by my Netgear SC101 – a network attached device that allows me to mirror a couple of IDE and, using proprietry drivers, make them appear as SAN (virtual SCSI) devices local to my Windows PC's.
I've now broken two Window's installations, one on a Dell desktop and another on an IBM ThinkPad, simply by uninstalling what I thought was old Netgear SC101 software after a recent upgrade…..
A reboot after the uninstall gives a BSOD with STOP 0x0000007B (0xF8890528, 0xC00000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000).
The most recent incident, with my Dell Dimension E520, rendered the PC completely unbootable, even in safe mode and all other boot options available to me.
After trying a boot from CD, running chkdsk /r from the recovery console, and reading all sorts of stuff on the tinterweb, I decided on an in-place upgrade.
Boot from the Windows CD that came with my Dell, choose to install, but choose to repair the existing installation. Now, at some point during the installation, Windows will ask for iastor.sys, this was already on my C: drive at c:\drivers\storage\onboard, so point to that and the install will progress. Otherwise you may have to source the Intel Matrix Storage drivers, burn to a CD on another PC and load that instead.
After the re-install, Windows came back up without any apparent loss of my data. I then did another uninstall of the remaining Netgear SC101 software, a reboot, and re-installed again. All apears to be hunky-dorey once again.
