Am working on old HP m7000 which was hanging at mup.sys whilst booting up in
Safe mode,
XP Media Centre,

I suspect that mup.sys was damaged due to a failing sector/s on hardisk -
mup.sys (or at least parts of it), was stored approx 5.5mb's in from front
end of 250gb hd.
Spinrite 6 repaired it sufficiently to get the thing booting but, left a
splattering of unrecoverable locations in one sector. i.e. one red "U"

Can anyone tell me why mup.sys is on this machine - (i.e. it's not present
on my XP Home ed. machine), and is it anything to do with the Novell netware
server icon "CSNW" in m7000's Control Panel ?
Can I e.g. Recovery Console - "disable Mup.sys" or is this file required
for this machine?

I can't overwrite the possibly damaged file with the original mup.sys from
Windows media centre CD until Monday, (owners are away until Monday),
....same old story - PC delivered to me with no disks !

Am going to, hopefully Ghost 14.0 "copy" C:\ and D:\ recovery partition
drive while it's still alive !
....is it possible to restore just mup.sys form HP.s recovery partiton ?

Does this machine need the "Multiple UNC Provider driver" ? ...perphaps to
do with HP software updates ?

regards, Richard

On Oct 20, 2:52*pm, "RJK" <nos...********.com> wrote:
> Am working on old HP m7000 which was hanging at mup.sys whilst booting upin
> Safe mode,
> XP Media Centre,
>
> I suspect that mup.sys was damaged due to a failing sector/s on hardisk -
> mup.sys (or at least parts of it), was stored approx 5.5mb's in from front
> end of 250gb hd.
> Spinrite 6 repaired it sufficiently to get the thing booting but, left a
> splattering of unrecoverable locations in one sector. *i.e. one red "U"
>
> Can anyone tell me why *mup.sys *is on this machine - (i.e. it's not present
> on my XP Home ed. machine), and is it anything to do with the Novell netware
> server icon "CSNW" in m7000's Control Panel ?
> *Can I e.g. *Recovery Console *- "disable Mup.sys" *or is this file required
> for this machine?
>
> I can't overwrite the possibly damaged file with the original mup.sys from
> Windows media centre CD until Monday, (owners are away until Monday),
> ...same old story - PC delivered to me with no disks !
>
> Am going to, hopefully Ghost 14.0 *"copy" C:\ *and D:\ recovery partition
> drive while it's still alive !
> ...is it possible to restore just mup.sys form HP.s recovery partiton ?
>
> Does this machine need the "Multiple UNC Provider driver" ? *...perphaps to
> do with HP software updates ?
>
> regards, Richard

It is what comes after mup.sys that is hanging your system. mup.sys
is just the last thing you see.

The next thing to load is usually be a hardware or device driver that
varies from system to system, but you can figure it out and fix it.
Trying to fix or "do" anything to mup.sys will only end in speculation
and frustration.

Why are you booting in safe mode in the first place (it should work
anyway).

When was the last time the system booted properly and what do you
think happened?

Describe the peripheral connections - keyboard, mouse, camera,
external drives, scanners, network, etc.

What is hooked up and are they USB or PS2 connections? Any new/
changed USB devices, a mouse maybe? Any driver updates?

I suspect a USB device issue but you will have to isolate it, then fix
it. Has any peripheral been replaced, changed, moved since the last
time the system booted properly? Any new software/driver updates that
has anything to do with hardware - CD/DVD. mouse, keyboard, mode,
network card, etc?

Unhook any USB devices except the keyboard. You do not need a mouse
to boot and maneuver. Reboot from power up and see what happens.

You may want to get busy and create a bootable XP Recovery Console CD
from a working computer with an Internet connection. Then you can run
a chkdsk /r and other things on the afflicted system to repair any
possible corruption in the file system from the aborted start
attempts. Do you need useful instructions for that?