PC Will not boot!

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  1. rld0829

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    I got home from a hard days work and went to boot up the ol puter and after the XP splash screen I get an error reading "lsass.exe failed to load, could not find the fild dnsapi.dll....reinstallation of this will fix problem"

    What do I do? I tried a repair with the windows installation cd but it says I don't have any hard drives installed!
    Also tried to copy this dnsapi.dll file from a dos boot but it couldn't find the c:\!
    If my computer says it can't find HD...but it's getting past the XP splash screen...I'm so perplexed.
    Please Help!
     
  2. Dave35k

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    usually if ya hardrives broke it will tell you it in bios. it will say something like "primarly hard disk failure" but its defiantly found the hardrive to reconise xp. it could be a virus? if i was you i would delete the partition/s using fdisk. if you don't know how to do this post back and ill post detailed instuctions post back Dave :good:
     
  3. rld0829

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    THanks for the reply...it does detect the HD...I tried booting up another working HD but for some reason it wouldn't work on my computer, i'm sure i had the jumpers correct......anyways, i wanted to run a virus scan on the borked HD from the working one...but couldn't
    Yeah could you tell me about this fdisk ?
     
  4. Dave35k

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    right m8 boot up of your startup disk and follow theese instuctions

    1)type "a:\" (without the speech marks) and press enter
    2) type "fdisk" (without the speech marks) and press enter
    3) press "y" to enable large disk support (if it asks you)
    4) look through the lists that come up until you find your partition and delete it.
    5) restart the system with bootup disk still in
    6) format your hdd
    7) reinstall windows

    if you need anymore help post back m8 hope this helps Dave :good:
     
  5. rld0829

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    So I can kiss everything on my HD goodbye eh? Not like there was anything much on there, just a pain to reinstall all my progs
     
  6. Dave35k

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    unfortunatley m8 :mad: but its better than havin no pc init m8?? it up 2 you
    m8
     
  7. Dave35k

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    what makes your hdd?
     
  8. rld0829

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    alright, here goes nothin
     
  9. Dave35k

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    lol gd look :good:
     
  10. rld0829

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    maxtor
     
  11. rld0829

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    typing fdisk from the a: promt yields a "bad command or filename" :sick:
     
  12. Dave35k

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    type c:\ then enter then "dir"(without the speech marks) see what that come up wid
     
  13. rld0829

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    says invalid drive
     
  14. Dave35k

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    have you got msn?
     
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    try checking your ide connections what operating boot disk are you using??
     
  16. rld0829

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    it looks like whats on the floppy disk is incomplete to what i remember........to make one i just right clicked on a: and selected format and then "create ms-dos startup" right?
     
  17. Dave35k

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    is the drive partitioned??? and what drive letter does it usually use???
     
  18. rld0829

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    im getting msn msger right now
     
  19. Dave35k

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    kk m8 can you make another starup disk of the computer you are using now and use that one??? fdisk should work
     
  20. rld0829

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    the computer froze everytime after the winxp splash screen, so i tried doing some stuff to try and fix it but the BIOS isn't detecting that a HD is there, nor from a dos boot disk. but when i start up the raid controller prog... that detects it, so does a maxtor dos prog i downloaded onto a floppy and ran.......i tried running the winxp installation cd but it says that can't continue because theres no HDs installed.....even after i formatted the thing.......any ideas?!
     

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