Hi I'm looking for a bit of help. My wife's laptop has developed a fault and will not start up. It goes into the scan screen with the white blocks across the screen, as though windows hadn't been shut down correctly, and then brings up the message.
Windows cannot start because this file is missing or corrupt
system32\drivers\pci.sys
You can repair the file by running the original CD Rom and selecting repair, unfortunately the laptop didn't have a CD Rom, there is a partition on the hard drive with a system recovery in it but this will loose all the info so not something I want to do just yet.
I have found this file on my oiwn desktop, if I was to copy this to my usb memory stick, is there anyway I could use it to replace the missing file?
The laptop is a Dell machine running XP home, my machine is a HP Pavilion running XP Home.
Grateful for any help as Sheila has loads of pictures that she hasn't backed up so doesn't want to loose them.
Windows cannot start because this file is missing or corrupt
system32\drivers\pci.sys
You can repair the file by running the original CD Rom and selecting repair, unfortunately the laptop didn't have a CD Rom, there is a partition on the hard drive with a system recovery in it but this will loose all the info so not something I want to do just yet.
I have found this file on my oiwn desktop, if I was to copy this to my usb memory stick, is there anyway I could use it to replace the missing file?
The laptop is a Dell machine running XP home, my machine is a HP Pavilion running XP Home.
Grateful for any help as Sheila has loads of pictures that she hasn't backed up so doesn't want to loose them.