Saturday, 28 October 2017

External HDD locks Windows XP

I have 1TB Seagate Portable External Hard Drive STAX1000102. When I attach it (USB) to the laptop (Dell Latitude D530) with Windows XP version 2002 SP3, the Operation System goes into strange state. I cannot run simple app like Total Commander, I cannot just do even simple operations, I cannot browse in already launched web browser, I can do nothing - everything takes forever. I cannot even shut down the computer - it must be done by the laptop on/off button. It is not consuming a lot of CPU nor a lot of HDD - it seems that the Operation System itself gets locked somehow.


Just by simply running msconfig, I disabled all items in the Startup tab, all non-Microsoft items in Services tab, and the issue is still present! I also tried to disable some of the Microsoft services, but it didn't help either. Only thing that helped was to run Windows in safe mode.


The HDD works fine on many other laptops and desktop PCs.


Do you have any idea what could cause the trouble?


EDIT - result of @STTR's script:


I have run your script (usbrest.cmd) and unfortunatelly it didn't help. Here is the output (unfortunatelly I have localised Win, I will try to translate where needed):


C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas> C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>REG DELETE "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}" /v LowerFilters /f

Chyba: Systém nenalezl zadaný klíč registru nebo požadovanou hodnotu.
(translation: error: registry key or value not found)

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>REG DELETE "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}" /v UpperFilters /f

Chyba: Systém nenalezl zadaný klíč registru nebo požadovanou hodnotu.
(translation: error: registry key or value not found)

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>REG DELETE "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" /v LowerFilters /f

Chyba: Systém nenalezl zadaný klíč registru nebo požadovanou hodnotu.
(translation: error: registry key or value not found)

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>del /F /A:- %windir%\inf\INFCACHE.1

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config stisvc start= auto [SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start stisvc

SERVICE_NAME: stisvc
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x7d0
PID : 1540
FLAGS :

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config ShellHWDetection start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start ShellHWDetection
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

I have been also looking at the registry key you have mentioned but I have not found the LowerFilters, UpperFilters values.


EDIT 2, output of STTR's script getusb-file.cmd:


C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>dir /B /A:- %windir%\system32\Drivers\usb*
usb8023.sys
usb8023x.sys
usbcamd.sys
usbcamd2.sys
usbccgp.sys
usbd.sys
usbehci.sys
usbhub.sys
usbintel.sys
usbohci.sys
usbport.sys
usbstor.sys
usbuhci.sys
usbvideo.sys

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>dir /B /A:- %windir%\inf\usb* | find /i ".inf"
usb.inf
usbport.inf
usbprint.inf
usbstor.inf
usbvideo.inf

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>

EDIT 3:


C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>wmic BASEBOARD get Product, SerialNumber, Version, Manufacturer
Chyba: (= error)
Kód = 0x80070422
Popis = Zvolenou službu nelze spustit, protože není povolena nebo s ní není spojeno žádné povolené zařízení. (= The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.)
Prostředek = Win32



F:\sw\pstools>REG QUERY "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE103??18}" /v UpperFilters

Chyba: Systém nenalezl zadaný klíč registru nebo požadovanou hodnotu.
(= registry key or value was not found)

I have dumped whole HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class registry for you to see.


EDIT 4


Here is the output of RestoreServiceSetting.cmd (there were some errors):


C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::HID Input Service
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config HidServ start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start HidServ
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Shell Hardware Detection
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config ShellHWDetection start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start ShellHWDetection
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config stisvc start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start stisvc
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Windows Management Instrumentation
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config winmgmt start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start winmgmt

SERVICE_NAME: winmgmt
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x7d0
PID : 1796
FLAGS :

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Remote Registry
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config RemoteRegistry start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start RemoteRegistry

SERVICE_NAME: RemoteRegistry
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x7d0
PID : 2000
FLAGS :

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Logical Disk Manager
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config dmserver start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start dmserver

SERVICE_NAME: dmserver
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x7d0
PID : 1796
FLAGS :

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config dmadmin start= demand
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

After restart:


C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>wmic BASEBOARD get Product, SerialNumber, Version, Manufacturer
Manufacturer Product SerialNumber Version
Dell Inc. 0HP728 .721HP3J.CN4864383F5721.

EDIT5:


After running secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose and secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secDC.inf /db secDC.sdb /verbose I got this output (translated, commented):


C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose

Úloha je dokončena. Některé soubory uvedené v konfiguraci nebyly v tomto systému
nalezeny, nelze tedy nastavit ani zjišťovat zabezpečení. Zprávu můžete ignorova
t.
Podrobnosti naleznete v souboru %windir%\security\logs\scesrv.log.
(task is finished. Some of the files were not found so the security level cannot be
found out. You can ignore this. Details in the scesrv.log -- actually this command
took quite a long time, showing progress in percent)

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secDC.inf /db secDC.sdb /verbose

Systém nemůže nalézt uvedený soubor.

Úloha byla dokončena s chybou.
Podrobnosti naleznete v souboru %windir%\security\logs\scesrv.log.
(File was not found -- the secDC.in does not exist. THis terminated immediatelly.
The log file just said that the secDC.inf file could not be found.)

Then I rebooted and the problem persisted. So I hard-rebooted and tried RestoreServiceSetting.cmd script again, but there were similar errors as in the last run:


C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::HID Input Service
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config HidServ start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start HidServ
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Shell Hardware Detection
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config ShellHWDetection start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start ShellHWDetection
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config stisvc start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start stisvc
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Windows Management Instrumentation
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config winmgmt start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start winmgmt
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Remote Registry
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config RemoteRegistry start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start RemoteRegistry
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Logical Disk Manager
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config dmserver start= auto
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc start dmserver
[SC] StartService FAILED 1056:

Instance tÚto slu

C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>::Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
C:\Documents and Settings\Tomas>sc config dmadmin start= demand
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

I connected the drive again and the problem still persists.


EDIT: today I tried to attach normal (internal) HDD using the USB adapter and it did lock the computer the same way.

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