WinXP won't load.......

[LabShark]

On a buddy's machine. Anyhow - the error says' "Windows cannot load. Cannot find missing.dlls for Kernel."
Was fine one day and upon booting the next day, the error appeared, and keeps appearing. Any thoughts? Hard Drive?

Thanks

 

[Creedyou]

can you get to a command prompt?

 

[LabShark]

I'll have to go over and see in person. We could perhaps go into safe mode......

 

[Creedyou]

you can try pressing f8 right after POST (right before the "Starting Windows" line appears) and selecting "Last Known Good Configuration"
EDIT: first just try just going into safe mode and then restarting normally. if that don't work then try Last Known Good Configuration.

 

[LabShark]

Good call. I had forgotten about the restore points as well.

Thanks