do you know what the update was? did you try going into device
manager and doing a driver rollback? (and or a system restore?)

this is extremely painful to read and has to be much worse for you,
and I admire you patience.

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:26:32 -0500, coljohnhannibalsmith
<coljohnhannibalsmith.2zhzs2@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:
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>During all of this I was still connected to the Internet
>and one of my applications installed an update. I was persuaded to
>restart, which I did, with the SD Card still inserted. When Windows
>tried to launch the Desktop the system Blue Screened. I then removed
>the SD Card and Cold Booted. I started Windows normally, then
>reinserted the SD Card after Windows had completely loaded the Desktop.
>A dialog Box popped up stating that my HD Soft Conn Modem had stopped
>working; but I closed it and persevered. I was prompted to format the
>SD card and when I clicked "OK" another Blue Screen.[/color]
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
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[url]http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/[/url]

I can't imagine that the core files would be different. What are the
file properties of ntfs.sys on your system? what is the status of
the digital certificate?

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 08:47:45 -0600, coljohnhannibalsmith
<coljohnhannibalsmith.2zj422@no-mx.forums.net> wrote:
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>
>The only good thing I think that can come out of receiving a free
>Retail version, as the MS engineer suggested is that there may be some
>system file differences between the retail and the OEM versions. If
>this is so, performing an inplace-upgrade with the retail version may
>solve the problem, then again maybe not.
>
>I suspect in the end MS will just need to add or modify a couple lines
>of code in ntfs.sys to solve the problem.[/color]
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx[/url]
[url]http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/[/url]