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Old April 6th 05, 01:58 PM
Bob Sanderson
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Default Can't upgrade to SP2 or repair XP

We have a PC in our office which had been upgraded from Win 98 to XP SP1. I
am trying to upgrade it to SP2 but am receiving the message "The procedure
entry point PtInSect could not be located in the dynamic link library
USER32.dll". In addition, My Computer properties indicate that the OS is
Win 98 although it is clearly XP, which might indicate that the upgrade
from 98 to XP was botched. I tried to repair the XP SP1 installation by
booting from the CD but get the message that NTDLR is missing. Since I
can't boot with the CD, I can't repair the system. Can anyone suggest a
solution?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Old April 6th 05, 02:54 PM
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Bob Sanderson wrote:

We have a PC in our office which had been upgraded from Win 98 to XP
SP1. I am trying to upgrade it to SP2 but am receiving the message
"The procedure entry point PtInSect could not be located in the
dynamic link library
USER32.dll". In addition, My Computer properties indicate that the OS
is Win 98 although it is clearly XP, which might indicate that the
upgrade from 98 to XP was botched. I tried to repair the XP SP1
installation by booting from the CD but get the message that NTDLR is
missing. Since I
can't boot with the CD, I can't repair the system. Can anyone
suggest a solution?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Sounds like you will need to do a clean install, preferably with a
slipstreamed XP SP2. Back up your data, format the drive, install
Windows, etc. Here are links to help:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

How to slipstream sp2 into XP
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?act...showarticle=49
http://www.windows-help.net/windowsx...p2-bootcd.html

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Old April 6th 05, 06:45 PM
Rock
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Bob Sanderson wrote:

We have a PC in our office which had been upgraded from Win 98 to XP SP1. I
am trying to upgrade it to SP2 but am receiving the message "The procedure
entry point PtInSect could not be located in the dynamic link library
USER32.dll". In addition, My Computer properties indicate that the OS is
Win 98 although it is clearly XP, which might indicate that the upgrade
from 98 to XP was botched. I tried to repair the XP SP1 installation by
booting from the CD but get the message that NTDLR is missing. Since I
can't boot with the CD, I can't repair the system. Can anyone suggest a
solution?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Free Technical Support for SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/def...09&gprid=6794&

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Old April 6th 05, 10:46 PM
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Bob Sanderson wrote:

We have a PC in our office which had been upgraded from Win 98 to XP SP1. I
am trying to upgrade it to SP2 but am receiving the message "The procedure


http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop20.htm#1

 




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