Bootcat.cache becomes corrupted/changed every time I restart.

Question

I have been treating the symptoms of the issue for the past week but have not actually fixed the problem.

I currently get a blue screen of death with the error message process 1 initialization failed. It then boots to repair. I used to wait it out but now I cancel and go to advanced repair where I open cmd and manually replace bootcat.cache with a good one. then it boots fine. 

I initially thought it was that my month old overclocked graphics card was drawing too much power and caused some corruption, so I bought a powerfull enough PSU, IT helped the first couple times.

Then I thought it was software/drivers but it has been rolled back a couple times now. 

Memory Diagnostics said all good.

Disk error check said all good.

No viruses.

My only solution is mind is a new HDD or reinstalling windows.

Does anybody have anything clever? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

For me the problem were an exe that was part of Itunes ( "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\APSDaemon.exe" ) and at every startup was damaging the bootcat.cache, sovled by deleting the exe and reinstalling Itunes.

Answer 2

In my case the bootcat.cache was more of a symptom than the issue. The bootcat.cache file will not regenerate if the folder C:\Windows\System32\catroot{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE} folder has errors. Some virus scanners (McAfee in my case) sometimes screw up and this folder gets renamed to a tmp folder. After copying the bootcat.cache file from another PC, I boot into windows and do the following (Just doing the bootcat copying hasn't been all that stable for me):

Search through all of the tmp***.tmp folders within C:\Windows\Sytem32\catroot and find the one with the most files. I've typically seen them around 800-1000 files, though this may vary I guess; I'm no expert. Copy these files into the {F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE} folder if it exists, overwriting when prompted. Otherwise, rename the temp folder {F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE} . Then go and rename bootcat.cache in C:\Windows\System32\CodeIntegrity\ so if this doesn't work you can restore it.

Reboot now and it should regenerate the bootcat.cache for your current PC. If not, you can always copy the {F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE} folder from a different PC, though some drivers may show as "unsigned" and you have to re-install them to make it go away.

We had a rash of these after a domain wide McAfee issue and either copying from the temp file or from another PC has worked on about 10 Win7 PCs and 3 servers with 2008 R2 installed so far.

Source: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB75956 (SFW) Did not work for us as they said, but pointed me in the right direction.

Answer 3

Well, i ended up just re-installing Windows, but i'm glad someone was able to actually figure out the cause and solution, especially when its so obscure. Thank you for the reply, i hope other sufferers stumble across this page early in their bout.

Answer 4

1. PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

2. Installation of 3ds MAx 2012, lego ldd, source SDK, DotHalo, aio v2. (all but 3ds and sorce SDK have been uninstalled)

Answer 5

Hi,

1.       What is the complete error message are you getting?

2.       Were there any recent changes made to the computer prior to the issue?

I would suggest you to try the steps mentioned from the link, which would help you to resolving stop (blue screen) errors in Windows 7.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Resolving-stop-blue-screen-errors-in-Windows-7

Hope this information is helpful.