How to Recover when getting a STOP: C0000135 error

[Michael Artmore]

Hi,

I'm getting an error when booting Windows 2000 Professional. I'm getting a
stop error and the OS is not booting up. I have tried booting up in safe
mode but it does the same thing. The error is as follows:

stop: c0000135 {Unable to locate DLL} The dynamic linklibrary winsrv could
not be found in the specified path Default Load Path


Does anyone have any suggetions on how I might recover from this? The
problem occurred while I was installing the critical updates from
Microsoft's Website regarding the blaster worm. The PC rebooted during the
install of service pack 4 which then resulted in the described error
occurring.

Thanks,
Michael

 

[Paul Dietrich]

Try safe mode with command prompt.

If that doesn't work, use your win2k cd to boot, and navigate through the
menus to a recovery console.

In either case, once there, type "sfc /scannow" this will attempt to
replace missing or corrupted system files from the win2k CD.

Once you get a normally bootable OS, go to the add/remove folder, and
attempt to uninstall the update.
Then reinstall it.


If this still doesn't work, post again, and we'll discuss the more drastic
measures, like reinstalling the OS.