Hi, I seem to having a messy problem with my HP laptop. I've got this camera phone Motorola V300 and I wanted to tranfer data images to my pc. So, I got hold of the USB data transfer cable and installed media manager and mobile phone tools software on my pc. But guess, I installed the wrong OS version and my dlls got corrupted. I can reboot my laptop and can even naviagte via windows explorer. However, now none of the programs work save ms-dos and notepad. No editors (text, images), no media players, no anti-viruses, no browsers, nothing. Whatever I click on, it gives me the error "winmm.dll linked to missing export ntdll.dll", "rpcrt4.dll linked to missing export ntdll.dll", "lz32.dll linked to missing export ntdll.dll" and so on. I got hold of the aforementioned .dll files including ntdll.dll from www.dll-files.com and replaced the same after booting my system from the floppy (it won't allow a replace in boot from hard disk on account of shared violations) yet the problem remains. What do I do ? Please help. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Snigdho Snigdho K. Das

If anyone of you who are using Windows Me or have a copy of it in a cd or hard drive, can send me over a copy of the following .dll files, it would be highly appreciated. I can try with the windows Me .dll files and see if my issue is resolved. I require these .dll files NTDLL.DLL LZ32.DLL RPCRT4.DLL WINMM.DLL Thanks a lot in advance. My email id is sdas@lehman.com Snigdho K. Das

By your second response I'm guessing you don't have any recovery disks for the laptop. The easiest thing would be to restore to either factory settings by using recovery disks or use system restore and push it back to a good date. If you can't do any of that you might want to try uninstalling all programs and running setup.exe via c:\windows\options\install Your going to be heavily corrupted by the sounds of it and probably unlikely that you can salvage the installation by patching it with substituting good DLL's or other Windows and none Windows files. However, you get your Windows files from your Cab files that are stored on your hard drive. Check out: MSKB A 129605 - HOW TO: Extract Original Compressed Windows Files MSKB A 265371 - HOW TO: Extract and Replace a Protected File in Windows Me But like I said, once you go past a certain point of no return, then you have no real alternative but to reinstall. Plus if your new to doing stuff like this, the reinstall is far quicker than going on a learning curve.

sigdho, If, I stress if, you just want the files, and you can't do the things explained in the articles. Then here are the files. It will be left on the server, until you say you got them. Or in 48 hrs, I'll pull it off. Whichever comes first. Good Luck, CrazyOne viking, that's another way of doing it. You think ;-)

I needed a new account anyway. I was drunk years ago when I created the old one, I put "v" instead of "V" and laughed internally at the pettyness of it ever since. Actually It was the lazyness of not doing anything about it that made me smile more.

Thanks for the help, Viking. I can restore it to the factory default ... that option is always there for me. I do have the HP cds for the same. Yes, it's true I do not have the Windows ME cd. However, I have loads of important data on my drive and I do not want to lose it. Unless it's the last and only available option, I am not proceeding with a re-install. I'll try to replace the files using the ones that CrazyOne has provided me. If it doesn't work, I'll try another round with extracting the files from the cabs. If nothing works, I guess I do not have any choice ... Thanks CrazyOne for the files. Snigdho Snigdho K. Das

Snigdho, (spelled it right this time, sorry about that) You're welcome, and if you still are having problems. Let's try some other things before you reinstall, ok. For instance, renew (before the install), fix, the registry. Register those files, ect. Good Luck, CrazyOne p.s. Viking, was it that background hum, that caused you, to be in that condition? ;-) Now, to make things CLEAR. That was said, in fun, no meanness intended. I think you would understand that, but SOME, get all bent out of shape. You know what I mean :-)