i'm on a laptop. i just look the drive up to my office and hooked it up as a slave drive, deleted the vidstub.sys file and took it home. that worked, i was able to finish installing (repairing)windows.
however, 2 of my 4 drives have issues. one has an error saying "s.m.a.r.t. capable and status bad", so i am not going to load that one, i took it out and will try and transfer the info on it later.
the other is the one drive i really didn't want to lose. i had hooked it up and started the windows repair/installation on it, but stopped when it got to the point where it asked if i wanted to partition the drive. that's when i posted here to ask what i should do, and i decided to not chance it on that drive. i clicked the f3 (i think) button to exit like it said and disconnected that drive. now, i hooked it back up since i have windows going and it tells me the drive has not yet been formatted. PLEASE PLEASE tell me i didn't erase everything off this drive... i have 9 years worth of stuff on it!!