VFAT Initialization Failed

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Rich - 23 Aug 2004 22:10 GMT

Earlier today I booted up my computer, only to come across
a Blue Screen of Death saying:
VFAT Device Initialization Failed

A device or resource required by VFAT is not present or is
unavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading.

System halted.

The computer wasnt touched since last boot, which went
perfectly. I hopped on the other computer and when to the
knowledge base article for my problem, and did each step
in turn. Still no luck. If anyone has any solutions for
this problem not mentioned at Knowledge Base Article -
139063 please let me know.

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 23 Aug 2004 23:06 GMT

Note: I already read the article posted by Techihe Tim.
Was unable to resolve issue.

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Lil' Dave - 24 Aug 2004 22:52 GMT

A few more solutions here in addition to the ones already noted in the KB
artiticle.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000366.htm

However, the obvious answer may lie in the purpose of vfat, to allow long
filenames per FAT32. The partition may be corrupted. MS does not address
this and can be a painful road to the solution as a result. Solution is to
recreate the partiition. Run scandisk thorough mode first. Yes you will
have to reinstall windows, but only once since you've effected the correct
solution. Reinstalling windows without recreating the partition will result
in same symptoms.
Another solution is to restore an image backup of the partition if you've
made one. (DriveImage, Ghost etc) after running scandisk in thorough mode.

> Earlier today I booted up my computer, only to come across
> a Blue Screen of Death saying:
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> this problem not mentioned at Knowledge Base Article -
> 139063 please let me know.

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