RE: Windows XP Pro is FUBAR'd!!! Help!
From: sgopus (sgopus_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/18/04
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:33:02 -0700
You are well and truly fu**** up, it was a bad idea to let your friend take
your install with him, unless he did it, without your knowing, if so, shame
on your friend, he should know this may screw up your future updates/patches.
I would get ahold of your friend and tell him to send the cd back ASAP
without using it. and don't use your dad's to do a fresh install, it will
mess up his ability to get updates/upgrades/patches. you may be forced to buy
another install cd. Good luck
"Ernie" wrote:
> I tried to be as breif as possible, but like it or lump it, this is
> paractuically a novel...
>
> Last week, I was having problems moving/deleting .AVI files on my computer.
> I googled the problem, and the solution was simple enough, remove a single
> registry entry. So I did, nothing I haven't done a dozen times before...
> Friday night, I went to use these .AVI files, and Media player wouldn't play
> them, but it worked fine before I modified the registry... I ran the AVIs
> thru GSpot Codec tool, and some of them came back with corrupt headers, but
> they ALL played fine in WMP a few days previously.
>
> So I said to myself, "Self, use System Restore". I opened system restore,
> selected a system checkpoint from 1 week previous. I restored the computer,
> and found the problem was still uncorrected, and a few of my files had been
> moved around and/or renamed and/or copied. I didn't like this, so I reverted
> back to the pre-restored state, figgering the files that had been
> moved/renamed/copied would be undone. I then selected a different restore
> point, and rinse, lather, repeat... After about 4 restores, my Systray
> flashed a message saying I was dangerously low on hard drive space. I
> checked it out and I was sitting at approximately 180mb remaining, and when I
> started an hour previous to that, I had about 2.1gb free. I decided to do
> another revert. This is when the proverbial excrement hit the air
> circulation device...
>
> The last revert seemed to progress normally for the shutdown. When the
> sytem restarted however, after I logged in, I got a message saying I was
> missing browseui.dll and explorer.exe could not open. I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del,
> and got a similar message for taskman.exe and vdmdbg.dll. I rebooted the
> machine and opted for safe mode, same results. I rebooted again into safe
> mode command prompt. (my memories of DOS commands have served me well...)
> From there I was able to find copies of those files in the SP2 update package
> stored in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\download\<insert alpha-numeric
> gobbledeygook here>\. I had previously installed SP2 and found it slowed the
> performance of my computer, and had uninstalled it. There was another
> similar update in the download folder (also named with numbers and letters).
> I think it was a major KB update or it might have been SP1, b/c it was almost
> as big as the SP2 update. Once I copied those two files from the SP2 Update,
> I typed explorer, and got a slightly different message, having to do with a
> different dll file. iexplore.exe didn't work because shdocvw.dll was
> missing. I tried Taskman again, and it came up. From there, I decided the
> most prudent course of action was to run an update, to restore all of the
> dlls, as they had obviously been adversely affected somehow. So, from
> taskman, I opened the run box, browsed to the non-SP2 update in
> C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\download\, and ran it. It seemed to go ok.
> Until it restarted... Then the excrement hit the air circulation device
> again....
>
> At this point, the computer would display the XP pro startup screen, but
> before the log in screen would normally come up, there was a flash of a Blue
> Screen of Death, and the computer restarted. It came up saying windows
> hadn't started correctly (duh) and prompted me for various safe modes, last
> known good configuration, or start windows normally. All produced the exact
> same result; blue screen of death and restart.
>
> I did not make an ASR disk, and I didn't install the recovery console.
> However, I was able to get a DOS command prompt using my old WinME startup
> disk. (Amazingly enough, the entire file structure is intact, and AFAIK, so
> is the registry, b/c I could open regedit from taskman previously, and no
> errors came up.) From there, I manually copied all of the files from the SP2
> update to C:\Windows\System32, and restarted the computer. This brought me
> back to where I was before; I could start the computer in safe mode - command
> prompt, and taskman was ok, but explorer.exe wasn't working, etc. From
> there, I tried running the SP2 update. Again, the update seemed to run
> normally. Upon restart, the blue screen of death came back. I found a KB
> article regarding the BSoD/Restart loop, and it suggested extracting
> kernel32.dl_ from my WinXP Pro disc. However, my friend took it with him
> when he moved to Calgary. I borrowed my Dad's XP Pro Upgrade disc, and
> extracted the file from there (using the ME Startup disk DOS prompt),
> however, this did not correct the problem either. I haven't tried anything
> else at this point, as I am pretty much out of ideas....
>
> The machine specs:
> Athlon T-Bird 1.3Ghz on Soyo K7VTA-Pro mainboard
> Win XP Pro SP1 with all latest updates except SP2 (When it last worked,
> anyway)
> 256mb Ram
> NVidia GeForce2 MX 64mb
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