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Keith

Computer problem,

Hello I’m Keith 54yo from County Durham, north east england & i have a problem, my home pc has a partitioned drive with windows XP on 1 drive & windows vista on the other, when starting up i get a screen asking which operating system i want to start in, then after 20 seconds if i don’t choose it starts vista, (which i am on now).
However 2 days ago when i chose XP it tried to start then came up with this message, “The application or DLL C:\windows\system32\imm32dll is not a valid windows image. please check this against your installation diskette.”
Does anyone know if this can be repaired, maybe through my vista system by altering the damaged registry, or will i have to reinstall xp then vista again to get back to where i was.
The reason i still use XP is that several programs i have wont work with vista so i revert back to use them.
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I.e bluetooth, nero, evidence eliminator.
thanks for reading this.
Keith

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Timisoara, 36, RO | 5 years, 7 months ago (10 minutes after post)

Windows XP setup has a repair option. Just boot off the CD and choose to install over the old XP but when it asks what you want to do (format the partition, etc), there’s an option to repair it (it will say press “R” to repair). Be careful not to overwrite your old system!

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Keith 0 #
Woodham, N3, GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (22 minutes after post)

Thanks mate, but i’m not sure where the disc is, iv’e looked for it but i had a clear out of cd’s a while back & i’m hoping i haven’t slung it with them, i can find my vista & my win 95 & my win 98 but wouldn’t u know it not a sign of XP.
Keith

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Keith 0 #
Woodham, N3, GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (1 hour, 12 minutes after post)

No mate, the list comes up i.e start normally, or safe mode, but it wont start, even choosing start in last known good configuration doesnt help i still get the message.

Davi 0 #
GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (1 hour, 14 minutes after post)

Go thru re installing Vista and select the repair option,this will repair the boot up files

Keith 0 #
Woodham, N3, GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (1 hour, 19 minutes after post)

thanks for that

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Keith 0 #
Woodham, N3, GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (2 hours, 2 minutes after post)

Thanks again, i think u are right about it not being a boot sector problem.
None of this would be a problem if bill gates didn’t sell dodgy not fully working operating systems.

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Keith 0 #
Woodham, N3, GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (2 hours, 17 minutes after post)

Its a partitioned 80 gig maxtor hdd, (40/40 gig partitions) ive been running it no problem for about 6 months now, there is another 250 gig hdd in the comp that is used solely for storage.

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Woodham, N3, GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (2 hours, 41 minutes after post)

Ive got to say a big thank you to you oldfart, ive just downloaded the dll & installed it after removing the damaged one, i am now writing to u in the XP operating system.
I’ll keep a copy in my vista downloads file in case it happens again.
Im about to log off shortly got a game of football to watch, Sunderland v the cockney monkeys.(west ham)
Thanks again mate, cheers, speak to u later maybe, if u keep looking in. ( i read your other post about giving up on the site)
Keith

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US | 5 years, 7 months ago (5 hours, 6 minutes after post)

Vista is horrible; switch to XP.

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Woodham, N3, GB | 5 years, 7 months ago (7 hours, 51 minutes after post)

Actually i quite like vista, can’t wait until its up & fully functional, but at the mo, yes sometimes its a damned pain.

AnishK 45 #
US | 5 years, 7 months ago (11 hours, 29 minutes after post)

Vista is horrible. I’m geek, trust me. It requires a truckload of RAM, an amazing graphics card, it’s too user-friendly (I know what I’m talking about) and believe me, unless you have a fantastic computer, it’s bad.

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