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Corrupt or missing Windows/System32/ file HELP!!!

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Dan OLD

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I was using my comp on Sunday night and it was working fine. I was running Kazaa for awhile (I know, problem is probably related to a virus from Kazaa), then I shut my comp down for the night. When my brother tried to turn it on the next morning, it started the normal boot process then went to a blank screen after the self-test. The blank screen read that the system can not boot up because of a missing or corrupt Windows system 32 file.

It gives me the option to repair it with the system disk but I haven't been able to get it to work. It won't even let me boot in Safe mode, let alone get to a prompt screen anywhere. I'm all out of ideas, and will most likely end up taking it to a local computer store to have them take a look at it.

I am a struggling university student who doesn't enjoy spending unnecessary dollars, so if anyone has an idea how to help me please answer this thread or send an email to "mission_deeps@hotmail.com" with the subject line reading "corrupt file help". This is just so I know where the email came from.

Thanks to anyone who can help.
 
what is the missing file ... maybe you can just attach the HD to a working machine and copying the file over ... just did this last night when a PC suddenly have the HAL.DLL file missing/corrupted ...
 
I just realized that the System CD may not be being read because the CD-ROM drive isn't the primary boot device listed after the HDD in the CMOS. I'll change that around when I get home later and see if that at least lets me try to repair my system.

As for the previous post........
I'm not sure which file it is that's corrupt or missing because I'm not using my comp right now. I do remember though that the file sometimes changes depending on the boot option I choose. If I choose to boot in safe mode with networking, the damged file may be different than if I were to choose booting in safe mode with command prompt.
 
if your going to use kazaa use Kazaa Lite... so much better (no spy ware, pop ups, etc.)
 
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