Fixing boot problem, now what?

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***** charles

Hi all,

I have a laptop that has XP Pro on it. It has quite a
bit of data on it I need to save. It started to give me
the following error message when I first turn it on:

Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\system32\l_intl.nls

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows setup
using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.

I finally get to the C:\WNDOWS prompt but what do
I do from here?

thanks,
charles......
 
***** charles said:
Hi all,

I have a laptop that has XP Pro on it. It has quite a
bit of data on it I need to save. It started to give me
the following error message when I first turn it on:

Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\system32\l_intl.nls

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows setup
using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.

I finally get to the C:\WNDOWS prompt but what do
I do from here?

thanks,
charles......
Click to expand...

hi charles,
If you type help you find the commands to help you to do what you want, in
this case you may want CHKDSK or COPY.
HTH
nass
 
Check to see if there is a file on the cd in i386 called l_intl.nl_. If you
can find it you can use the extract command from the cd to extract the file
and put it in windows\system32 OR just give me your email and I'll email you
the file provided you have another working computer to receive it on.
 
***** charles said:
Hi all,

I have a laptop that has XP Pro on it. It has quite a
bit of data on it I need to save. It started to give me
the following error message when I first turn it on:

Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\system32\l_intl.nls

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows setup
using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.

I finally get to the C:\WNDOWS prompt but what do
I do from here?
Click to expand...

Assuming your CD drive is drive D:, enter the following command at the
C:\WINDOWS prompt:

expand d:\i386\l_intl.nl_ c:\windows\system32\l_intl.nls

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
Good try but the restore cd only does it one way.
Deletes all partitions, creates one big partition,
formats it to ntfs and installs an image (ghost like)
to the partition. That way I loose all data.

later,
charles......
 
nass said:
hi charles,
If you type help you find the commands to help you to do what you want, in
this case you may want CHKDSK or COPY.
HTH
nass
Click to expand...

I tried the expand command and it did not recogize it.
It is one of the supported command in the list generated
by the help command. If the commands are coming off
the \system32 directory and it is hosed, not much I can
do. Beside the oem cd that came with the laptop didn't
work like a "normal" one. Had to use another one just
to get that far.

thanks,
charles......
 
Great idea but I think the whole \system32 directory is
blown. I would hat to have to replace all the files in it
over email. Besides as I mentioned in another response
the "expand" command did not work when I tried it.

thanks,
charles......
 
Ron Martell said:
Assuming your CD drive is drive D:, enter the following command at the
C:\WINDOWS prompt:

expand d:\i386\l_intl.nl_ c:\windows\system32\l_intl.nls
Click to expand...

Thanks for the pointer but the expand doesn't work.
Thanks for all who responded.
The "final" solution is/was to remove the hd from the laptop
and replace it with a new one. I put the original laptop hd
into another computer and will copy the "shared foders"
directory to another hard drive for the first backup. Then
I will network the laptop with the new configuration to the
other computer that has the data I want and copy it across
I hope this works, it should. I know all about ownerships
and stuff like that (been through it before) so I will let you all
know how it turns out.

thanks again,
charles.....
 
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