jmsilver

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Hi,
I had XP running stably on my computer (XP 2000+, GA-7VRXP, IBM 75GXP 45G drive, 512 ram, GeForce4 Ti 4200) and I was playing Morrowind when suddenly the computer locked up. I had to restart using the button. Then I get an error message that a .dll is missing. I failed to note which .dll in particular (oops). Anyway, I had to reinstall XP. After a few fits and starts, it's back on, but I now have to choose at startup between Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Home Edition and the startup takes quite a bit longer.
Is XP thinking there are two partitions on the drive, each with an installation of XP Home? If so, how do I convince it otherwise? And, why are load times suddenly taking so long? And finally, can someone point me to a reference on how to use XP's repair function so next time this happens I don't have to do a reinstall? Thanks.
 

Toejam31

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<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q311578&LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=reserved system space&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=WIN2000" target="_new">HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File</A>

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q289022&" target="_new">HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows XP</A>

As for repairing WinXP, there's more than one way to skin a cat:

<A HREF="http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm" target="_new">Repair XP</A>

<A HREF="http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm" target="_new">Windows 2000 / XP Recovery Console</A>

<A HREF="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/windowsxpsystemrestore.asp?frame=true" target="_new">Microsoft Windows XP System Restore</A>

<A HREF="http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/805/" target="_new">Windows File Checker Command-line Options</A>

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