[ie-rant] Re: calling all nerds I have an XP cd if you need, that will get you to the recovery console
with a full wipe

--- In pq-mism@yahoogroups.com, "duploelabs"  wrote:
>
> Yeah unfortunately it came with xp preloaded, and the acer backup CDs 
> that were made during the install will only wipe the c: drive and not 
> do a restore...
> 
> 
> --- In pq-mism@yahoogroups.com, "francois"  wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ________________________________
> > > 
> > > 	From: pq-mism@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ie-
> qsms@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
> > > 	
> > > 	
> > > 
> > > 	
> > > 
> > > 	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 ?
> > > 
> > > 	
> > > 
> > > 	If not, get in touch privately and i'll organise a CDR for ya.
> > > 
> > > 	
> > > 
> > > 	Rgds,
> > > 
> > > 	Denis
> > > 
> > > 	
> > > 
> > > 	
> > > 
> > > 	From: pq-mism@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ie-
> qsms@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
> > >
> >
>


