[ie-rant] Re: calling all nerds Try Startup with the XP CD, press R for recovery, the this will get
you to the consolse, there are a few commands there, such as FIXBOOT.
give tha a go, if not there is an EXPAND command, where you can try ad
extract the offending dll into the system32 directory
more info here
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxprcons.html
Just had to do that yesterday for a laptop and it worked

--- In pq-mism@yahoogroups.com, "Williams, Graham"  wrote:
>
> Ah, that old chestnut of "chkdsk". Rarely does this work, in
previous versions of windows it was called Scandisk, it did fcukall
then and it does fcukall now...
>  
> g
>  
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> 
> ________________________________
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> 	From: pq-mism@yahoogroups.com [mailto:pq-mism@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Denis Mc Auliffe
> 	Sent: 14 November 2007 10:24
> 	To: pq-mism@yahoogroups.com
> 	Subject: RE: [ie-rant] calling all nerds
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> 	Sounds like a bit of minor file system corruption - I'd say all you
need to do is run a CHKDSK to solve that, have you got a Hirens BootCD ?
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> 	If not, get in touch privately and i'll organise a CDR for ya.
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> 	Rgds,
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> 	Denis
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> 	From: pq-mism@yahoogroups.com [mailto:pq-mism@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of duploelabs
> 	Sent: 14 November 2007 08:45
> 	To: pq-mism@yahoogroups.com
> 	Subject: [ie-rant] calling all nerds
> 
> 	
> 
> 	I've got an Acer 8204 Travelmate running Xp sp2 with a dual partition 
> 	each of 60gb each.
> 	
> 	Got home last night and fired it up to recieve a blue screen of death 
> 	saying that the shell32.dll file is corrupt.
> 	It won't start windows now at all in any formatt (safe mode, debugging 
> 	etc).
> 	What's my best course of action to at least take my files off the c 
> 	drive?
> 	
> 	Really up a certain place without a certain instrument if I can't 
> 	rescue this so any help would be mucho appreciatos and repaid with
lots 
> 	of pints or whatever.
> 	
> 	Thanks Nerds,
> 	
> 	Therds,
> 	
> 	Ivan
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