Re: OT: DOS booting

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

> Let me see: the shell32.dll is part of Windows, it got corrupted, and you
> downloaded a copy elsewhere and are trying to copy it to C: Is that right?
Yes. Or I assume it is shell32.dll, give the error messages. That and/or
explorer.exe.
>  Doesn't XP have something analogous to W2K's Windows Recovery Console?

There's SFC (system files check) which didn't do the job.
> Partitioning the drive doesn't prevent your putting stuff on C.
> And if you're installing new programs all the time, with only one
> partition and nothing but a restore CD, your PC is headed for disaster.

No doubt. I'm no stranger to computer disaster.
>  Anyone who tries out new software a lot should really, really follow
> Jordan's advice and have a maintenance partition, with a whole, cloned
> known good copy of Windows and all really essential apps installed. Then
> when the one you use for a test bed gets hosed, just boot to the other
> (through the BIOS boot sequence option).
WAIT A MINUTE! Are you saying that *logical* partitions are recognized by
the BIOS boot sequence thing??!! So I could create a logical partition, on
the same physical drive, and boot from it rather than C? If that's true,
that changes everything. I assume(d) that logical partitioning comes in at
a "higher level" than the BIOS setup stage, and that a logical D: or E:
drive wouldn't be listed as a boot-sequence at that stage of booting (i.e.,
before anything of significance has been loaded).
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx


Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx