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6 Month Old Computer Won't Boot
No changes made, but it had been about two weeks since I rebooted. I rebooted yesterday and it would not reboot, even in to safe mode. Being the *complete* idiot I am, I hadn't set a restore point, recovery disc, anything.
It's an Inspiron N410 (I believe).
Startup repair says the following:
"Acls on file c:\windows\system32\sspisrv.dll are not proper. Old value = 0x0"
Three of those messages, sspisrv.dll, SSShim.dll, & ssText3d.scr. I tried restoring the Acls, and it "said" it worked on the first two, but can't find the last one.
Dell has their own handy dandy backup & restore but it has another error when trying to use it. I can probably completely reformat and reinstall, and I would, but I can see that my file directories are still there!
So, any idea how to fix this, or alternately, how to get the data off? My school computer right before finals, so bad deal for me. When I go to startup repair and to the command prompt, for some reason it calls the drive X instead of C, so I can't find it that way.
I'm at a loss. Can someone help?