Boot up problems

Question

I switched my PC on last night and got the error - 'Floppy diskette seeke failure' i dont have a floppy drive so pressed f1 to continue.   This then brought up the following error - 'Shell32.dll not found' This error came up 3 times for Winlogon.exe, services.exe, and lsass.exe.   I tried to press control and F11 to strart a factory setting restore but this doesnt take me into the restore option.   any ideas?   Someone on another forum on here has told me how to sirt the 'Floppy Diskette' problem, so it's really the Shell32.dll issue i need to resolve

dunedin · Answer

Can you boot into Safe Mode?  Choose 'Safe Mode with command prompt' At the prompt type chkdsk /r  ( there is a space before /) OK   If you can`t do that I think you will need an XP installation Disk and do the above in the Recovery Console.   I don`t know another way to fix it.

jjlang · Answer

I can't boot it up in any mode. i tried all the safe modes and it doesn't get past the shell32.dll problem.   i will resolve the floppy disk problem tonight and then try a system restore using control + f11 but i'm not holding out much hope.

RoHe · Answer

Boot from XP CD to Recovery Console. At the c:\ prompt, exactly type the following:

expand d:\i386\shell32.dl _ c:\windows\system32
Press enter

NOTES:
d: is drive letter for your optical drive. Your drive letter may be different.
Be sure to include _ (underscore symbol) in shell32.dl_
Put one space between _ and c:\windows\

When that's done, remove XP CD and reboot normally.

Ron

Windows General

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