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SHELL32.DLL corrupt

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by nu2002

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I have dual boot system. one partition is Win98 SP1 and other Wint NT4 SP3. Today when i started my machine in NT mode, it gave an error that shell32.dll is corrupt. I have tried to repair it and later on reinstall the NT but with no success(it gaveerror saying that the shell32.dll in Win NT CD-ROM is corrupt). Is there any way to recover the data stored in the 3rd partition with NTFS as file system.if there is any solution, please help.

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by rapidad

In any critical data situation like this the first thing to do is remove the hard drive from the box. get another hard drive and load nt 4.0 on it. if this is successfull, then you know there is nothing basically wrong with your machine. Now the first harddrive may be added as the seondary master and files transfered over from the 3rd partition. if you cant find a hard drive to use let me know.

by rapidad

if you are in the continental US i can mail you an old 540 meg drive which is enough to test with, but you will have to reimburse me the postage, probably less than $5.00. other wise if you load the nt 4.0 again when it gets to the hard drive choices you can choose to just install into the old partition. I would choose to delete the partition, then recreate it in ntfs. if there is nothing wrong with the drive or the MBR this should do the trick, however it is always dangerous to play with a disk that has sensitive data because so many things can go wrong. Did you mention if the drive was scsi or ide?? I've got both. or you could look on ebay, probably find a two gig for less than 10 bucks. let me know

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