No repair option in Windows XP (mup.sys & d347bus.sys)

[XRayKillerden]

-For those who are in the same reboot loop as me and the installation do not provide an option of repairing your Windows :
-If you have installed a legal version of Windows (retail, msdn or volume) you should be able to select installing followed by a repair option.
-One of the problem path I saw is that one or more Windows essential files, needed to be able to validated that you have a Windows version are not on the HD.

Follow these steps if you are in in this case :
1) Boot with your Windows installation media
2) select the Recovery console option
3) at the command prompt type "bootcfg.exe /scan"
---If you see a windows installation this mean that you are not in the same error path as me so ...
---If there is no Windows installation found then
4) type this command "scandisk c:"
5) Check that those 8 files are in the directory "c:\windows\system32"
- Kernel32.dll
- Mpr.dll
- Netapi32.dll
- Ntdll.dll
- Secur32.dll
- Shlwapi.dll
- User32.dll
- Ws2_32.dll
6) If there is one ore more files missing then copy them back
7) reboot in normal mode and see if it is working
8) if not then boot with your Windows installation media and choose the repair option (now available after restoring the files in step 5)

This had worked for us with 2 kinds of error, the mup.sys and the the d347bus.sys. The symptom is a perpetual reboot even when tried with the safemode.
Please post your result successfully or not, to help get rid of this annoying reboot problem path.

 

[linney]

4) type this command "scandisk c:"

Where is this command typed into (what program or prompt)?
What is the purpose of "scandisk c:"?

This seems to be a command used when booting from a MS-DOS Startup Disk.

Incidentally, if you wish to post a general advice type of post it may be better posting it in the FAQ section rather than in the main forum where it will disappear after a couple of days. You could call it "Repairing the unrepairable".