After a virus-scan (&delete), my mom’s EEE pc does not start up anymore, it stays stuck in an endless reboot… unless I turn off the ‘automatic reboot on crash’, then it gives the error message ‘cannot find file user32.dll’ …
As you know eee PC does not have a CD drive or floppy drive, making things harder.
There are two possible ways I was thinking about going about this:
Do a system restore from the windows command line and do a system restore (but, it seems I am unable to reach that point…)
Run a Live USB system and manually copy the file to the windows system partition. I still have a Windows XP installation CD, so I can copy the dll from there (apparently, dll-files.com is not allowed to provide this )
So, which one? I was thinking to put Ubuntu 8.04 on a LiveCD and put the user32.dll file on the stick then copy it over from the live system.
I’d appreciate it if you could give me any advice here.
Hi
I think any live type USB would do, puppy is probably easier as long
as the one you decide on supports ntfs-3g?
You might want to look at getting a 3 in 1 convertor (SATA, PATA 44pin
and PATA 40pin) to USB and pulling the drive out and connecting to
another computer. With this method you can copy of important files etc
then do a system restore.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 17:28, 1 user, load average: 1.44, 0.71, 0.27
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
> Hi
> I think any live type USB would do, puppy is probably easier as long
> as the one you decide on supports ntfs-3g?
>
> You might want to look at getting a 3 in 1 convertor (SATA, PATA 44pin
> and PATA 40pin) to USB and pulling the drive out and connecting to
> another computer. With this method you can copy of important files etc
> then do a system restore.
>
That may do for the latest units, but the early ones have Solid State
Disks (my 701 has 4GB of soldered-in chips).
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PeeGee
Asus M2V-MX SE, AMD LE1640, openSuSE 11.0 x86-64/XP Home dual boot
Asus M2NPV-VM, AMD 64X2 3800+, openSuSE 10.3 x86-64/XP Home dual boot
> Hi
> I think any live type USB would do, puppy is probably easier as long
> as the one you decide on supports ntfs-3g?
>
> You might want to look at getting a 3 in 1 convertor (SATA, PATA 44pin
> and PATA 40pin) to USB and pulling the drive out and connecting to
> another computer. With this method you can copy of important files etc
> then do a system restore.
>
That may do for the latest units, but the early ones have Solid State
Disks (my 701 has 4GB of soldered-in chips).
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Hi
Ahh ok I thought they had 2.5" SSD’s fitted.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 22:33, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
I downloaded eeedora (had a pretty easy-looking installer, plus the ISO is pretty small at 340mb …) , going to try it with that tomorrow. I expect the booting from the USB stick will work, only problem I see it that I will indeed be able to read the Hard Disk’s NTFS file system but not write to it…
Hi
Interesting name reminds me of dora the explorer, maybe your the Map or
Boots? lol
I was thinking if you were going to try copying the dll across, but
much better (safer?) to do a re install after getting a virus. Is it
using the default firewall? I use a version of sygate (ver 5.2 I
think, the free one before symantic swallowed them up) so you can block
outgoing traffic, been using bit defender for antivirus and spybot.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 1 day 2:51, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.10, 0.06
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
Well, I used PuppyLinux , pretty much had to since the biggest USB stick I could find was 256MB x-) Not a problem though, Puppy is a pretty great distro to use for purposes like this (small at about 98mb, fast, loads in RAM, can put extra stuff on the USB stick).
Copying over the user32.dll file did not work though, since it complained about size/checksum mismatch… so I had to drive to town and check all the shops (most are closed) for an external DVD drive with USB connection in order to be able to use the rescue DVD that came with the eee (basically a restore of a Norton/Symantec Ghost image). Oh well, I suppose it complements the eee pretty well.
Then I had to reinstall the OS (pretty quick fortunately) and install mom’s favorite programs… good thing I had remembered to put the Thunderbird program & profile folder on the USB stick, that saved me a lot of trouble B)
Spent quite a lot of time figuring it out & fixing this! Darn you one more Windows! … You know now that I am using Linux so frequently I am getting tired of being the Windows repair guy…
Anyway, end good all’s good I guess. Too bad there went another half day of my vacation… (got this Monday and Tuesday off).
I thought they had 2.5" SSD’s fitted.