svchost.exe error

[joshc]

So I was trying to image my hard drives with Acronis TrueImage and it failed because it couldn't read a few sectors on my hard drive. So I ran the "Check now" option in windows XP(home) on my primary partition and it said it found something wrong with a certain dll, I recall it being wbme???.dll or something like that. That was the only problem it found during the scan and it said it "fixed" it. Now on subsequent reboots I am getting the following when I boot into windows:
svchost.exe - Application Error
A breakpoint has been reached.
(0x80000003) occurred in the application at location 0x753c1c01.
Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program

I tried doing a system restore to an earlier checkpoint but the problem is when it tries to shutdown my computer my computer gets stuck on the "logging off"; when I force a shutdown when I boot up again it says the restore failed because of an improper shutdown. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Unfortunately it seems that with my Sony Vaio laptop I didn't get a Windows XP CD but I got some system recovery CDs which don't seem to let me do a windows repair installation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[d4dev]

Well, I hate to say this, but you're probably screwed. I find it amazing that you're even able to log on to Windows and do stuff.......svchost is an essential process and normally, you can't even terminate it using the Task Manager. Try this:

Go to Run, type in cmd. When the dos window opens, type in sfc /scannow

Hopefully you can find out what the problem is.

 

[rsatat]

i would try stopping all services that are not required before doing anything drastic

 

[Jiggz]

Find somebody with an XP home CD and try doing a system repair. If this is not possible, then your last resort will be to restore from your CD. Make sure you back up all your important data first. Or you can try uninstalling Trueimage first and see if this will fix the problem. SVCHOST is a multiple services which means it can be launched by the system in multiple instances. If the last program you installed causes the application error, try uninstalling it first and see if this fixes the problem. You might want to run a registry cleaner also.

 

[joshc]

Thanks for the ideas, guys. I had no problems after installing TrueImage; the problems started when I tried to scan my disk for errors and checkdisk or whatever tried to fix an "error"in a file. I didn't know the name of the file before but now after checking event viewer I know it is "wbemess.dll". In event viewer I have the following error:

Faulting application svchost.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting module wbemess.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x00031c01.

Unfortunately I don't have dependency walker on this PC; anyone know what apps/services load this dll? Also, care to explain to me what exactly svchost does?

Thanks.

Update: The solution was as simple as booting into safe mode and copying wbemess.dll from a working XP install to my laptop. It seems that windows tried to "repair" wbemess.dll it screwed it up.