My wife shut her laptop off today, and took it to work. When she restarted it, after the login screen, a window pops up saying that the wininet.dll file is missing. We searched about this problem, and only came up with people still being able to get into Windows, or to a command line. Both of which we cannot. So I pulled the drive from the notebook, and put it into an external drive, plugged it into my desktop, and if I check the properties, it says that there is only 1.something gigs left (60 gig drive). But when I navigate through the drive, I find that the windows folder is empty along with many others. The only ones that still have anything are the music folders. I know that the wininet.dll was not intentionally deleted by my wife, and AVG didn't recognize it as a virus as in other threads that I've read. I'm wondering if the drive just went out? It's funny that it shows the drive as being full but when I check each folder, the max size is about 8 gigs to the drive? I'm also wondering if she got hacked, and there are some encrypted files on it?

Old stuff that still works, somewhat....

yer hdd is dead, replace it.

I'm here to help as best I can...