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#1 Squall_Leonhart

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Posted 15 January 2025 - 09:34 PM

The tool fails to remove the Lower Filters where relevant in the registry, causing the OS to fail to boot with Inaccessible Boot Device.

 

The original SPTD installer doubles as an uninstaller and can be used to safely remove them, if you can find a copy, the Secure-Duplex site has long been defunct so you might look at file mirrors for the original.

 

On Windows 11, all sptd drivers are already rendered unuseable by driver block listing, but this block does not render the system unbootable because there are checks in place for blocked filters preventing successful bootup, but there are no such checks in place for a Filter driver being removed entirely.



#2 Charalambos

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Posted 16 January 2025 - 08:20 PM

 

The tool fails to remove the Lower Filters where relevant in the registry, causing the OS to fail to boot with Inaccessible Boot Device.

 

Thanks for the information, this is something to be looked in by the tool developer.

 

 

On Windows 11, all sptd drivers are already rendered unusable by driver block listing

 

Are you sure? Have you tried using Alcohol with the SPTD drivers removed and did you have any success?



#3 NARS

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Posted 17 January 2025 - 05:24 PM

Could you please let us know where did you download the removal tool that renders system unbootable?



#4 Charalambos

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Posted 17 January 2025 - 08:21 PM

I suppose it is the mentioned one by Phoenix in this post: http://forum.alcohol...nal-setup-error

 

 

Please download and run the following tool:
http://forum.alcohol.../span>remov.exe
After removing SPTD from your system and restarting Windows as requested by
the tool (you may need to reboot twice in some cases, the tool will tell
you) then please try to reinstall Alcohol again.



#5 NARS

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Posted 25 January 2025 - 05:23 AM

Possible, it's a very old tool not compatible with Windows 10/11 SPTD version, I removed the file from server to prevent further problems.






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