Re: Windows XP can't boot - hangs

From: smilies (smilies_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:56:01 -0700

oh well. thanks for all your help. but it seems that nothing we do is reviving the machine, when we tried the 'expand' command it kept saying that file lsass.exe cannot be created. we really have no idea what to do anymore except to reinstall everything. we appreciate all help provided to us!

"Alex Nichol" wrote:

> smilies wrote:
>
> >hi again, i do not quite understand the EXPAND part.
> >'Use the Expand command to
> >expand x:\i386\lsass.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe
> >where x is the CD drive letter and
> >del C:\windows\system32\bridge.dll
> >(and from windows as well in case it landed there).'
> >am i suppose to expand x:\i386\lsass.ex_C:\Windows... or just x:\i386\lsass.ex_?then what's that about the C:\Windows... part?
>
> Type in that full
> expand x:\i386\lsass.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe
>
> replacing x with your CD drive letter (which I don't know)
> which is saying 'expand the compressed file lsass.ex_ from the i386
> folder on the CD and put the decompressed file in C:\Windows\System32
> calling it lsass.exe'
>
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
>

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