yankpuffin said:
after deleting the above from registry per the cox communications directions
to get rid of the "runtime error '53' no file found" and get my desk top back
(which I could get back opening the task manager and "file, explorer.exe)
windows seems to load, goes to my log in screen and when I click my icon to
log in I get "loading personal settings" my background appears then briefly
Mcafee (as if it's loading my anti virus) then it logs me off and says saving
personal settings. I've used f8 to go to last known good, safe mode, safe
mode with command prompt all with the exact same results. My xp is on a
laptop that was mfg pre loaded and no cd was provided. Any Ideas???
Ask the laptop maker on how they expect you to enter Recovery Console
mode (where you can run 'sfc /scannow') to do a repair on the current
installation, and how sfc.exe is supposed to run without access to the
\i386 folder of files if their recovery image or CD doesn't provide it.
Retail and OEM install CDs can be booted to load Recovery Console mode
from them but you don't have that. Restore CDs might simply overwrite
the partition and aren't usable for Recovery Console mode, but then you
didn't make one of those, either. Just what were you expecting to use
to recovery your OS if the hard disk failed? Or after malware corrupted
your file system or was impossible to eradicate? Where are those
backups that you should've been doing for data/file recovery? If you've
been doing backups, does the backup program allow you to boot from
removable media? If so, did you make a bootable CD to load the backup
program to then restore files?
That the CD wasn't included doesn't mean that YOU weren't expected to
create one. Read their manual. It likely tells you what command you
were supposed to run upon receiving the new pre-built host that would
burn recovery CDs. You might still be able to load their recovery
program (theirs, not Microsoft) by hitting a hit after the POST that
runs it from a hidden partition where resides the recovery software and
the recovery image.
You may have to tote the hard drive to an instance of Windows on a host
where it runs okay and then copy userinit.exe back on that drive under
C:\Windows\system32. You need to get the correct version of
userinit.exe or hope the one you have will work. You find a copy under
C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 or C:\Windows\$NTServicePack*. Once
you copy it onto the old hard drive, you should also check permissions
on the file so it matches those on the working instance of Windows.
Also read
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555648 for some hints on how
to edit the registry, if needed. I'm not sure how much of userinit.exe
you deleted or altered. I suppose you could use a bootable CD for
another OS and on which you copied the userinit.exe file that could read
whatever file system was on your old hard drive (you didn't mention
that, either) and then copy userinit.exe to C:\Windows\system32.
Tough to near impossible to answer problems on hardware whose sum total
description is "laptop". If you had identified the make and model of
whatever laptop you have then someone else tell you how to do the file
restore for it - assuming the answer isn't simply RTFM.
