Repeat on boot-up

March 27, 2008

Hey all...I have a kind of old HP at home with Windows 2000 Pro. I ran a

virus scan the other day and found I had infected .dll files that couldn't be

repaired. I chose to delete some of them, stupidly, and now the system goes

into a loop when I power on. It shows the HP logo, then the WIndows 2000

loading screen (the bar fills up all the way), and then a blue screen and

repeats over and over again. The F8 options do nothing. Is there any way

around this without having to reinstall Windows, because it wasn't mine and

therefore don't have the reinstall software. Thanks!

March 27, 2008

Re: Repeat on boot-up

"William" <William@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:AC655F14-7102-4FDB-B871-5E64B46468E0@microsoft.com...

> Hey all...I have a kind of old HP at home with Windows 2000 Pro. I ran a

> virus scan the other day and found I had infected .dll files that couldn't

> be

> repaired. I chose to delete some of them, stupidly, and now the system

> goes

> into a loop when I power on. It shows the HP logo, then the WIndows 2000

> loading screen (the bar fills up all the way), and then a blue screen and

> repeats over and over again. The F8 options do nothing. Is there any way

> around this without having to reinstall Windows, because it wasn't mine

> and

> therefore don't have the reinstall software. Thanks!

You could attempt a repair installation or else you could manually

restore the missing files from the Win2000 installation CD. The

latter course is risky because the restored files might not match

the current update level of the machine.

When I have a problem machine then I usually create an image

file of the system drive so that I can restore the PC to its original

condition, no matter what happens.

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