I have added a second HD and installed WinXP on it. While installing a Zip drive to my XP printer installation I misconnected a connection resulting in the following message appearing during the Zip drive installation: 'The preceding entry point Thunk connect32 could not be located in the dynamic Link Library Kernel 32 dll'. I am now in a delema, since SFC is not available in XP I can no longer replace the corrupted Kernal dll. Since the XP installation is newly installed, I don't have a restore installation to fall back on. Can someone advise me how to replace the corrupted dll file.

Put your XP disk in the cd drive, then go to Start / Run / paste this in sfc /scannow Unity is strength.

Wooops forgot to say, then hit OK Unity is strength.

I am running Windows XP SP-2 and when I type, "sfc /scannow”, it works fine. What do you mean by "SFC is not available in XP". Look Here Tomorrow the Stars!

Here is one more link that can be useful: http://www.all-windows.com/kernel32.html

I ran sfc/scannow on my computer but when I tried the Zip installation I received the same error message. Then my senses returned and I realized I had not checked for the latest driver upgrade. After installing the latest driver version the Zip application installed successfully. What did I mean 'sfc is not available in XP?. When I coudn't find SFC in the XP menu (a la Win98) I assumed It was not available in XP, an unfortunate error statement for me to make. Thank you Arctos, FJ and cnf for your generous help.

Thank you for replying back WallyLes. Unity is strength.