Re: Windows XP Pro is FUBAR'd!!! Help!
From: Tasslehoff (Tassburfoot-spam-menot-_at_optusnet.com.au)
Date: 10/18/04
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:09:40 +1000
This might help but probably not. Get your friend to mail back your xp cd
or borrow from another friend. Free up a gig or so of some hard disk space.
Try typing in a run window or CTRL-ALT-DEL file/New Task (run...) sfc
/scannow and have your xp disk handy. If that doesn't work try a repair
with your xp disk on windows startup. If that doesn't work backup your
documents, videos, savegames, favourites and fdisk your drive if >=8GB else
New HD and reinstall windows preferably with a slipstreamed SP2 XP CD.
When editing the registry in future try viewing the reg file you're about to
import/delete and export the current key so if you change it and it goes to
hell you can just simply reinstall it.
"Ernie" <Ernie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5815CAF0-AFA8-4E7C-BDDF-086C84E9B394@microsoft.com...
>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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