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while initialization device ios

By Casemaker ·
I receive this error on boot with a clients machine. She said she had been uninstalling all sorts of stuff and this error message popped up after reboot.
"While initializing device ios: error: an io subsytem driver failed to load. either a file in the .\iosubsys subdirectory is corrupt or the system is low on memory"

I looked through the bootlog.txt file and found these failed loads.
C:\windows\sytem\iosubsys\rmm.pdr
C:\windows\sytem\iosubsys\bigmem.drv
I tried to ren them in the iosubsys folder but I keep getting error message saying file not found. The iosubsys directory cannot be found either. I tried to remove the attributes with the attrib command but the directory is not found. I did a dir /s rmm.pdr and bigmem.drv and no files are found.
Any ideas on why these files and directory are not showing up?

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If files have attributes of H,R,S, you need to use the "a" switch to see them.
So the command would be; "dir rmm.pdr /a /s"

The problem is that the folder is corrupt or damaged. To correct the problem boot to the command prompt using a startupdisk.
Change to the C: drive "cd C:" then type the following commands followed by enter.
cd\windows\system
ren iosubsys iosubold
Then reinstall Windows and the problem should be gone. By the way back up the data.

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