How to manually install a .sys driver?

darts592

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Hello everyone.
Here's my situation: Yesterday I installed comodo firewall but accidentally did not choose custom install so i got a bunch of bloatware. I uninstalled and had to manually delete many files with comodo in its name. After doing so, I noticed that my device manager was telling me that many of my drivers were "corrupt or missing" so I looked online for help. I read that if the Wdf01000.sys file is messed up, this may occur. I followed one suggestion to try and restore the file to an earlier point but something seems to have screwed up. My computer now hangs on every boot as the windows 7 flag begins to form and restarts with no error message.

I am attempting to fix this by obtaining the same file from another computer on the same OS (Win 7 Home premium 64 bit). How do I manually install the wdf01000.sys file?
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP Pavilion Elite 9150t
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
CPU
Intel i7-920 (2.67 Ghz)
Motherboard
Pegatron IPMTB-TK
Memory
6 GB (3 x 2 GB) DDR3 PC3-10600 (message as PC3-8500)
Graphics Card(s)
Radeon HD4350
Sound Card
Integrated 7.1 Sound
Hard Drives
500GB SATA 3Gb/s
Mouse
Logitech Wireless
I think it's better to use win 7's own automated healing utilities, if you don't mind.:D

Do you have a win7 install or repair disk? if not, the first two steps of this tutorial will provide clean iso you can burn to a disk, and Microsoft's own utility to make a win7 installation flash drive in case you want to have one and/or the damaged computer lacks a DVD drive.

When you have the disk or usb flashdrive installer, follow this tutorial to fix corrupted system files (that are taken from the install disk, no need to pilfer them from other computers).
 

My Computer My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
custom built
OS
Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601
CPU
AMD Phenom 9650 QuadCore, revision DR-B3
Motherboard
ASUS M4A78
Memory
5 GB yes I run 2x 2GB and 1x 1GB, different brand, spank me.
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512 Mb, unknown manufacturer.
Sound Card
Crappy Realtek Integrated Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Fujitsu Siemens P19-3P
Screen Resolution
1280 x 1024 x 32 bits @ 60 Hz Oh yeah, 4:3 rocks!
Hard Drives
(1) MAXTOR S TM3320613AS SATA Disk Device (2) STM35004 18AS SATA Disk Device (3) TOSHIBA USB 2.5"-HDD
PSU
whatever, around 450w
Case
Scavenged from old company PC, 10+ years old
Cooling
CPU fan, GPU fan, case fan, nothing fancy
Keyboard
Microsoft, PS/2, white.
Mouse
Optical, logitec.
Internet Speed
effective max speeds: 70-ish kB/s down 30-ish kB/s up
Antivirus
Avira, free edition.
Browser
Firefox with FXChrome to make it look like Google Chrome :P
Other Info
Was discarded by previous owner due to "horrible performance".
Was running Win Xp from a IDE drive. Yeah. Was a pain.
SATA II drive and Win7 and it zips away! Yay!
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