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not getting past blue screen at boot

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by bohicam1 2 views

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I have a puter here that gets to the third dot on blue screen during boot then tells me the dll for winsrv is missing or corrupt. I have gone in with boot disks and replaced it, even took drive into another machine and replaced the ntdetect file butit still won't boot. I can access all files from another machine but this one just won't boot. During the repair, I replace all the files but at the end it tells me that certain files cannot be replaced. I have narrowed these down to files that are updated with service pack5(winnt)....any ideas out there? Is it the MBR? a virus?
thanks

Mike

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by 93961

Have you tried the Last Known Good Configuration (LKGC) option by pressing SPACE bar when prompted to in the secon screen before the blue screen while booting. This may solve your problem.

by bohicam1

yes, I have tried this also to no avail. I know the user has not logged into the system either so I don't know why this won't work. I cannot access safe mode either...thanks anyways
Mike

by bohicam1

Thanks for the info. I guess the registry got corrupted somehow and nothing I did could fix it. it was great info in that it taught me where to look. Thanks!

Mike

by bohicam1

sridevi...this is awesome information. I just checked the link and it looks like what I have going on here. If you don't mind waiting, I will do this on monday afternoon when I get back to work. I will then rate the answer. Thank you so much for theinfo.
Mike

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