Please help!!!

[amol]

argh, accidently pushed enter

wait for my real post

edit : okay, real post right below this one

 

[amol]

i restarted windows on my desktop and i get this error message :

Windows could not start because of an error in the software.
Please report this problem as :
load needed DLLs for kernel.
Please contact your support person to report this problem.



help! what do i do? i have a lot of stuff on my C:\ that i havn't gotten a chance to backup yet

 

[quakefiend420]

can you boot in safe mode?

 

[biostud]

put in WinXP install CD repair installation

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

You don't know what a repair install is?

Basically you boot from the CD just as if you were going to install a fresh copy of XP, tell it to install to the same drive, and it will ask you if you want to repair the current installation (once it finds it). This basically just replaces all the system files (and as such, you may have to upgrade to SP2 again, etc.)

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

Boot from WinXP install CD
choose repair installation

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

Boot from WinXP install CD
choose repair installation

it wont erase my other files, will it?

sorry, im just really cautious when it comes to this stuff, i had 3GB of info deleted when i did something similar on my laptop

luckily, most of it was backed up onto CD and the rest i just downloaded or installed again . . .

 

[amol]

if it matters, i have XP Pro SP2 (thats what was on the CD)

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

Boot from WinXP install CD
choose repair installation

it wont erase my other files, will it?

sorry, im just really cautious when it comes to this stuff, i had 3GB of info deleted when i did something similar on my laptop

luckily, most of it was backed up onto CD and the rest i just downloaded or installed again . . .

Just be careful, and don't let Setup proceed with anything before you're 100% sure what it's doing.

A repair install will leave everything intact (documents, even programs, etc.) - it just replaces system files with the ones on the CD.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

Boot from WinXP install CD
choose repair installation

it wont erase my other files, will it?

sorry, im just really cautious when it comes to this stuff, i had 3GB of info deleted when i did something similar on my laptop

luckily, most of it was backed up onto CD and the rest i just downloaded or installed again . . .

Just be careful, and don't let Setup proceed with anything before you're 100% sure what it's doing.

A repair install will leave everything intact (documents, even programs, etc.) - it just replaces system files with the ones on the CD.

okay, so i'll just make sure not to click "yes" when it says, "ready to reformat"

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

Boot from WinXP install CD
choose repair installation

it wont erase my other files, will it?

sorry, im just really cautious when it comes to this stuff, i had 3GB of info deleted when i did something similar on my laptop

luckily, most of it was backed up onto CD and the rest i just downloaded or installed again . . .

Just be careful, and don't let Setup proceed with anything before you're 100% sure what it's doing.

A repair install will leave everything intact (documents, even programs, etc.) - it just replaces system files with the ones on the CD.

yeah, i would give that a try and report back

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

Boot from WinXP install CD
choose repair installation

where/when would i choose repair installation? i don't see it anywhere yet . . .

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: quakefiend420
can you boot in safe mode?

no

Originally posted by: biostud
put in WinXP install CD repair installation

i dont get what youre saying

Boot from WinXP install CD
choose repair installation

where/when would i choose repair installation? i don't see it anywhere yet . . .

Like I said, I'm pretty sure you go about it as if you're going to do just a normal Windows install onto the drive...at which point it'll scan and find an already existing Windows install, and it'll ask you if you want to repair it. (Hint: you do )

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol

where/when would i choose repair installation? i don't see it anywhere yet . . .

Like I said, I'm pretty sure you go about it as if you're going to do just a normal Windows install onto the drive...at which point it'll scan and find an already existing Windows install, and it'll ask you if you want to repair it. (Hint: you do )

ahh okay, i did that and now it says :

Setup cannot create the folder:

\WINDOWS\mui

Setup cannot continue until the folder is created.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol

where/when would i choose repair installation? i don't see it anywhere yet . . .

Like I said, I'm pretty sure you go about it as if you're going to do just a normal Windows install onto the drive...at which point it'll scan and find an already existing Windows install, and it'll ask you if you want to repair it. (Hint: you do )

ahh okay, i did that and now it says :

Setup cannot create the folder:

\WINDOWS\mui

Setup cannot continue until the folder is created.

Never heard of that one before.

If it's not something simple like the drive is full or something...then I have no idea what to make of that, lol

 

[biostud]

is your drive NTFS formatted?

If it is I don't see another solution than trying to install windows on another partition, or another harddrive with the current unplugged to be 100% safe.

If it's FAT32 get a win98r2 bootdisc and copy the stuff to another partition

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol

where/when would i choose repair installation? i don't see it anywhere yet . . .

Like I said, I'm pretty sure you go about it as if you're going to do just a normal Windows install onto the drive...at which point it'll scan and find an already existing Windows install, and it'll ask you if you want to repair it. (Hint: you do )

ahh okay, i did that and now it says :

Setup cannot create the folder:

\WINDOWS\mui

Setup cannot continue until the folder is created.

Never heard of that one before.

If it's not something simple like the drive is full or something...then I have no idea what to make of that, lol

drive can't be full, it's a 250GB drive with about 70GB used

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: biostud
is your drive NTFS formatted?

If it is I don't see another solution than trying to install windows on another partition, or another harddrive with the current unplugged to be 100% safe.

If it's FAT32 get a win98r2 bootdisc and copy the stuff to another partition

it is NTFS

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud
is your drive NTFS formatted?

If it is I don't see another solution than trying to install windows on another partition, or another harddrive with the current unplugged to be 100% safe.

If it's FAT32 get a win98r2 bootdisc and copy the stuff to another partition

it is NTFS

can you move the drive to another computer to get the data off? (not as the boot disc obviously)

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud
is your drive NTFS formatted?

If it is I don't see another solution than trying to install windows on another partition, or another harddrive with the current unplugged to be 100% safe.

If it's FAT32 get a win98r2 bootdisc and copy the stuff to another partition

it is NTFS

can you move the drive to another computer to get the data off?

not one of my computers . . .

one is a laptop, and the other is a 5 year old machine that has a 100WATT PSU running a cd rom, hard drive, floppy, motherboard, cpu

i'll have to find a friend who has a computer that they can lend me for a while



if i buy another HDD, install that, put Windows XP on it, can i transfer the files that way?

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud
is your drive NTFS formatted?

If it is I don't see another solution than trying to install windows on another partition, or another harddrive with the current unplugged to be 100% safe.

If it's FAT32 get a win98r2 bootdisc and copy the stuff to another partition

it is NTFS

can you move the drive to another computer to get the data off?

not one of my computers . . .

one is a laptop, and the other is a 5 year old machine that has a 100WATT PSU running a cd rom, hard drive, floppy, motherboard, cpu

i'll have to find a friend who has a computer that they can lend me for a while



if i buy another HDD, install that, put Windows XP on it, can i transfer the files that way?

yes, if you don't have some encryption one your NTFS drive, in which case it doesn't work to put it in another computer either. See the thread in OS if you have.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: biostud
is your drive NTFS formatted?

If it is I don't see another solution than trying to install windows on another partition, or another harddrive with the current unplugged to be 100% safe.

If it's FAT32 get a win98r2 bootdisc and copy the stuff to another partition

it is NTFS

can you move the drive to another computer to get the data off?

not one of my computers . . .

one is a laptop, and the other is a 5 year old machine that has a 100WATT PSU running a cd rom, hard drive, floppy, motherboard, cpu

i'll have to find a friend who has a computer that they can lend me for a while



if i buy another HDD, install that, put Windows XP on it, can i transfer the files that way?

yes, if you don't have some encryption one your NTFS drive, in which case it doesn't work to put it in another computer either. See the thread in OS if you have.

i dont think i encrypted my NTFS drive . . . . . . . .

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: Amol


i dont think i encrypted my NTFS drive . . . . . . . .

Then lending a computer, a fresh install on another partition or harddrive is the way to go AFAIK. Another harddrive with current unplugged is the safest way to ensure nothing goes wrong, but you can also install on another partition if you have one.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: biostud

Originally posted by: Amol


i dont think i encrypted my NTFS drive . . . . . . . .

Then lending a computer, a fresh install on another partition or harddrive is the way to go AFAIK. Another harddrive with current unplugged is the safest way to ensure nothing goes wrong, but you can also install on another partition if you have one.

no, i only made one partition when i formatted the drive . . .

i guess i'll order a drive from Outpost.com in the morning, there are a few good rebates happening ($70 for 200GB) . . . use that, install XP, transfer all the files

then reformat this 250GB drive i have right now and make partitions . . . what do you think i should make the partitions as, just as to avoid this in the future . . .


i think i'll then sell the drive i buy tomorrow on FS/FT or something