Cannot Boot

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Malke

Buck said:
At the advice of a consultant, I placed some DLLs in a special
directory, and then put the directory first on my path.

Now my laptop won't boot.

Is there a way to boot into a DOS prompt, and delete the contents of
the
directory, which hangs from root? I tried booting from the XP CD and
using the recovery manager, but it says "access denied" when I try to
delete the
contents of the directory. I really wish to avoid re-installing XP
just because I need to delete a directory.

I have XP Pro.
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If you are not able to boot into Safe Mode so you can run System Restore
or Last Known Good Configuration, since you can use Recovery Console
try running System Restore from the command line:

Navigate to:
c:\Windows\System32\restore

and type rstrui.exe [Enter]

If that doesn't work, you might try a Repair Install, although I'm
doubtful that will work either. If none of the above works, I'm afraid
you're looking at a Clean Install. Oh, and get a different consultant.

Malke
 
Buck said:
At the advice of a consultant, I placed some DLLs in a special directory,
and then put the directory first on my path.

Now my laptop won't boot.

Is there a way to boot into a DOS prompt, and delete the contents of the
directory, which hangs from root? I tried booting from the XP CD and using
the recovery manager, but it says "access denied" when I try to delete the
contents of the directory. I really wish to avoid re-installing XP just
because I need to delete a directory.

I have XP Pro.

Thanks.
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When in recovery console type in this set command:

Set AllowAllPaths=true (note you may need to put a space on either side
of the equal sign).

Hopefully this will allow you to access that directory and delete it.
 
Hi,

Which dll's?
Why did you move them?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
At the advice of a consultant, I placed some DLLs in a special directory,
and then put the directory first on my path.

Now my laptop won't boot.

Is there a way to boot into a DOS prompt, and delete the contents of the
directory, which hangs from root? I tried booting from the XP CD and using
the recovery manager, but it says "access denied" when I try to delete the
contents of the directory. I really wish to avoid re-installing XP just
because I need to delete a directory.

I have XP Pro.

Thanks.
 
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