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Here's the scoop, It's essential that I recover files off of this laptop of a friend. He somehow deleated the 'services.exe' file in c:\windows\system32.
Windows now cannot login, I have tried all last good configurations and etc and I can't seem to find a resolution.What I did was created a ISO boot disc from a cd rom (no floppy). I added the file services.exe in the disc directory and I was going to copy it to the hard drive when I am in command prompt. But the problem is I cannot access the C drive, I have tried using a modified boot disc from bootdisk.com and I have also tried using a win98se cdrom boot disc.
Any way I can access my c drive from command prompt to copy this file to my hard drive?
If the C: drive is NTFS partitioned, you won't get in it from the DOS menu.
Use the recovery console instead or try NTFSDOS to access it.
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If I am in recovery console I can't take the windows xp cd out, must have a lock on it or something when its loaded
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Maybe I should make an ISO of my windows CD and add the services.exe into a seperate folder
Then when I am in the repair console I can add it from the cd...........almost too easy...lol
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It should be compressed in the i386 folder. The syntax would be something like:
copy d:\i386\services.ex_ c:\windows\system32\services.exe
Change drive letters if necessary. It should be automatically decompressed.
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"To tell you the truth I havent even tried, I figured it was inside of a cab file.."
I never even considered that, and you are probably right. What about a repair install of XP ?
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You had all this time to do a repair install or you can use the dir command to find services.exe on the xp cd
computer stats:
Gigabyte 7IXE4 Motherboard
Atapi MARY500 cd-rom
Philips 5232p cd-r/rw
WDC WD400EB-75CPF0 HD
Cypress USB mouse
WK-8000 Keyboard
NVIDIA Geforce fx 5200 Video card<br
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Have you tried taking the laptop apart to get the cd out if you do this be VERY CAREFULL IF YOU DO SOMTHING WRONG
computer stats:
Gigabyte 7IXE4 Motherboard
Atapi MARY500 cd-rom
Philips 5232p cd-r/rw
WDC WD400EB-75CPF0 HD
Cypress USB mouse
WK-8000 Keyboard
NVIDIA Geforce fx 5200 Video card<br
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There are some tricks to get other directories on the recovery console in xp cd.
A way is to use the repair ability of the xp cd.
I'd get the files off before you go too far.
To recover files is too easy. Get any live linux cd. You can also make any number of live xp cd's using barts or ubcd4win. You can get ntfs for dos. You can get rescue cds. Quit fooling with making an iso.
Copy the files off to a shared folder on another machine or usb drive.If you wish to write to ntfs then you need ntfs write on linux (which sort of stinks so far) or make a barts cd and add that file to the cd.
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