Cannot Copy and Paste??? 1

[Airdawg10]

There's much background to this, but I'll spare you unless it deems relevent...

Basically, my laptop went haywire this afternoon when I tried to reinstall drivers for my wireless card. As of now, I have no taskbar (it is completely gone), most of the windows features (search, F1 help, User Accounts, almost everything else) are dead, I cannot drag and drop, and I cannot copy and paste. By copy and paste, I mean both text and copying folders to put somewhere else. I suspect my harddrive is dying, and so all I really want to do is get my files off this hardrive (across the network) to my other computer. I can get on the network, even browse the other computers files, but cannot place anything in those files (no drag/drop or copy/paste) And yes, I have enabled changing the folder on the other computer.

When I'm on my other computer, I can SEE this "dying" computer on the network, but cannot access it (I could before) so i can't pull any files off of it.

Any suggestions???

 

[linney]

HOW TO: Use the Driver Roll Back Feature to Restore a Previous Version of a Device Driver in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306546&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Try Safe Mode.

Try System Restore in both Normal Mode and Safe Mode.

 

[Airdawg10]

Thanks for the response. I've done all that you suggested before and didn't help. In safe mode, I run into the same problems (no click and drag, no taskbar, etc) and when I run system restore, even in safemode, i get this message:

"System Restore is not able to protect your computer. Please restart your computer then run system restore again."


And, in Device Manager, there are no drivers installed for my wireless card. They must have been removed when I tried to uninstall. I can't reinstall either, btw. It runs into errors and when I plug inthe PCMIA card, it lights up then goes blank and windows has no reaction to it being there at all... Any further suggestions?

 

[bcastner]

Open a new notepad session, to be called fix_reg.cmd, and copy/paste the below:

regsvr32 urlmon.dll
regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 Msjava.dll
regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
regsvr32 Browseui.dll
regsvr32 Shell32.dll

Save the file, then double click fix_reg.cmd and answer the prompts. Ignore any error messages.

Reboot and test again.

 

[Airdawg10]

Wrote that doc up and ran it. They all "succeeded", rebooted. Nothing is changed, as far as I can tell. No copy/paste, no click/drag, no taskbar...

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;315341

 

[Airdawg10]

I also did that (tried to boot from CD and repair it) however, I was using the ISO that was on this computer when I bought it and after loading the CD and checking my disk, the CD halts and says it needs file "SP1.cab". I can only assume that means Service Pack 1.

I never tried to slipstream the ISO that I have on this CD, so I don't know why it would be asking for a file it doens't have.

I'm gonna go try slipsteaming this iso with sp2 and writing that to a cd on my other computer. meanwhile, any tips?

 

[Airdawg10]

oh, and btw, when I try puting in the CD while Windows is running, and click install xp (which is the other way of doing it on that link you gave me), it says I can't install an older version of xp in place of the one i've got...

 

[bcastner]

thread779-900263

 

[Airdawg10]

That thread takes a lot of the guesswork out of slipstreaming.. thanks! I'll continue on my quest to make a SP2 XP CD and I'll let you know how it goes after that...

 

[Airdawg10]

Well, after reinstalling XP from the new SP2 CD I created, all seems to have returned to normal. I'm not taking any chance though, I'm gonna send all my files across the network and do a thourough check of my system.

Where can I get a scandisk program? When I do window's scandisk, it reboots and doesn't give me a report on any bad sectors or anything....

 

[bcastner]

Use Recovery Console and do a chkdsk /r

 

[linney]

For the ChkDsk logs refer to the Event Viewer logs.

Use the view / filter option and search for Winlogon in the Event Viewer (Application Folder).

http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/58895.html