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Jo
Windows XP SP1
NTFS
desktop, clone, amd duron 700; 768 MB ram; 20 GB free.
The PC had been working well for over a year.
Out of the blue, today, the PC hung as the desktop loaded,
so I rebooted. Checkdisk ran, reporting many problems.
The system then spontanteously rebooted and stopped after
the post, informing me:
windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt
system32\drivers\pci.sys
you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows
setup using the using the original setup cd-rom
select 'r' at the first screen to start repair
I have searched google & yahoo.
My plan is to rename c:\windows\system32\drivers\pci.sys
to pci.old , then extract [ expand ] a new copy of
pci.sys from i386.
I am having trouble with the ren / rename command.
I have used c:\ren /? , but I don't understand. I'm told
that "rename will operate only in the system directories
of the current installation.
From c:\> , I type:
ren c:\windows\system32\drivers pci.sys pci.old , Returned
is "the name specified is not a directory", or "the
parameter is not valid".
I've tried to rename from c:\windows &
c:\windows\system32 , but the error messages continue.
Your assistance is appreciated.
Jo
NTFS
desktop, clone, amd duron 700; 768 MB ram; 20 GB free.
The PC had been working well for over a year.
Out of the blue, today, the PC hung as the desktop loaded,
so I rebooted. Checkdisk ran, reporting many problems.
The system then spontanteously rebooted and stopped after
the post, informing me:
windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt
system32\drivers\pci.sys
you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows
setup using the using the original setup cd-rom
select 'r' at the first screen to start repair
I have searched google & yahoo.
My plan is to rename c:\windows\system32\drivers\pci.sys
to pci.old , then extract [ expand ] a new copy of
pci.sys from i386.
I am having trouble with the ren / rename command.
I have used c:\ren /? , but I don't understand. I'm told
that "rename will operate only in the system directories
of the current installation.
From c:\> , I type:
ren c:\windows\system32\drivers pci.sys pci.old , Returned
is "the name specified is not a directory", or "the
parameter is not valid".
I've tried to rename from c:\windows &
c:\windows\system32 , but the error messages continue.
Your assistance is appreciated.
Jo