winsrv.dll could not be found

Some suggestions:

Try booting from the installations cd (workstation) and start the installation-program. At some point you are given an option to repair your system. There are some options you can choose when repairing... (inspect startup-files etc.) Use all except restoring registry.

Depending on how your disks are partitioned you may be able to copy the missing dll from another NT workstation and then return the file to your workstation booting from a DOS floppy. This will only work of course if your OS partition is a FAT partition.

You could always do a parallel install of NT and copy that file over to the original install. That's the easy way to go.

If your boot partition is NTFS you can go to winternals.com and they have a 3rd party tool thatll let you boot to a dos prompt and access NTFS partitions Pricey but handy.

One option is to load the drive on another system, give your account system privilege and then load the registry from the other system into your own in a temphive and modify the settings, of course you must make sure the file and path truly exist, too...

Use the NT Reskit to do this:

Use Regedit to Create HKLM\temphive and delete it when done.

ntrights -u %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME% +r SeTcbPrivilege -m \\%COMPUTERNAME%

reg load "drive":\winnt\system32\config\system HKLM\temphive

Edit the path, unload the temphive.
reg unload HKLM\temphive

Remove the system priviledge
ntrights -u %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME% -r SeTcbPrivilege -m \\%COMPUTERNAME%

And reinstall the drive in original system.