Re: File is missing or corrupt??? --- Anyone out there who can hel
- From: "Dave M." <DaveM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:08:29 -0800
"Lem" wrote:
Dave M. wrote:
Ken:
Thanks for your reply. In terms of your reasons why no one has been able to
help me so far:
#1)_ "Poorly worded question" - certainly not the case with my question.
It is very clear as to what my problem has been.
#2) "No one knows the answer" - I would have to believe that my situation
has arisen hundreds of times and cannot be that "rare".
#3)"The Person who knows the answer may have missed your question." Bingo!
I believe that's it. In the meantime, the volunteer who has chosen to help
me answers every other day, and then at that doesn't answer the specific
questions I ask.
I have used this forum over the years, and must say I've had much better
luck/help from the volunteers here. And I have had volunteers who have
replied two and three times on a given day and normally at least daily.
Unforturnately, I haven't been so lucky this time.
I understand the way the system works is that once someone attempts to help
a poster, that more often than not, other volunteers do not jump in to
provide further assistance. So, in my case, when I've attracted someone who
either doesn't know the answer or doesn't take the time to answer specific
questions raised in a post, ie, how do you use the "recovery console screen &
its commands" , I'm stuck. There may be a more knowledgeable person who
knows the answer, but doesn't want to step on the toes of another volunteer.
Again, I believe my situation/problem cannot be that uncommon; and I'm sure
one of the many folks here, be they Microsoft employees or folks that ust
know a lot about Microsoft, know an answer.
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
Dave M. wrote:
Are there other Microsoft tech people available to answer
questions??? I would just like help trying to get my Windows
XP-Home back up and running. - I was under the impression that tech
people who are either from Microsoft or who are very knowledgeable
about Microsfoft field tech questions here. Thus far, I haven't had
much luck. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to
provide.
This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just Windows XP users here,
helping each other if and when we can. We are not Microsoft employees (not
even those of us with "Microsoft MVP" behind our names; that's an honorary
title for having provided consistently helpful advice) except for an
occasional employee who posts here unofficially on his own time.
If you don't get an answer, it can be for a variety of reasons: you may have
asked your question poorly and nobody understood, nobody may know the
answer, the person who knows the answer may have missed your question, and
so on.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup
Instead of complaining, how about being a little proactive? A Google search on
"system32\drivers\pci.sys" results in about 4000 hits. Certainly, many are
complaints without solutions, but not all. For example see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319136 Although that MS
KB article applies directly to Win2000, it should work for WinXP as well, with
appropriate substitutions.
Or learn how to use the MS Knowledge Base (the above article is the very first hit
on a KB search for pci.sys). There are others, including
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330181/en-us which, like some of the Google hits,
suggests bad hardware, e.g., bad RAM, may be the real cause the error message.
I don't know the cause of your problem, but the foregoing ought to give you
something to do instead of complaining that no one is spoon feeding you the
answer.
If all else fails, try a Repair Install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
and if that doesn't work, a Clean Install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Although a Repair Install is supposed to preserve your applications and data, the
almost univeral recommendation is to do a backup of your important data first.
And of course, a Clean Install simply wipes everything, so having a backup is
essential.
If you don't have a recent backup of the things you care about, you might want to
take your computer to a knowledgable local repair person, who will be able to take
your hard drive out of your system, copy the data from it to backup media, and
then do a clean install (unless, of course, you are comfortable doing those steps
yourself).
Lem-
Thanks for your suggestions. The article that addresses pci.sys problems in
relation to Win2000 looks like it may help solve my problem. I'll try it
when I get home.
And, by the way, I really don't need anyone to "spoonfeed" me anything. I
merely needed someone with a mind about solving these sorts of things, along
with the time to do so , to point me in the right direction. And for doing
that, I thank you.
I participate in numerous web discussions dealing with several topics, and I
know how these forums function. I spend a lot of time helping people with
issues in which I'm knowledgeable. And as I said, I've used this specific
forum on numerous occassions with great results. In addition, after
expressing my frustrations, I was fortunate to have other people such as
Dave xnet & Mike Williams, to try to lend me a hand. If I had just waited
patiently, Lord knows when I would have heard back from the person who
"volunteered" to help me.
Thanks again for the link you referred me to. I'll try it out this evening
& report back with my results.
.
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