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Are you using the hard drive on his computer or yours? It needs to be in his computer.
Yes the HD is back on the original computer.
Looks like the recovery fail to happen because of the missing FNTCACHE.DAT
Booting into Safe Mode and trying to go to the control Panel doesnt work either...
Who/what did delete FNTCACHE.DAT and why? i think you did it will booted to winxp or linux .... correct?
Why do: for %a in (c:\Windows\System32\*.dll) do regsvr32.exe /s "%a" ?
Don't mess around with commands/tricks you don't understand!
Go to c:\Windows\System32\FNTCACHE.DAT and see if that file is there, not the one you renamed, a new one. It should automatically rebuild the FNTCACHE file. The restore you tried was before we renamed the file. If there is no new file, rename it back like it was and see. That's why I told you to rename it and not delete it.
Because that is what allowed me to do anything at all with this HD, and all the research I have been doing suggested that was a good fix. The file is still there, just renamed to "old" but if I rename it back to original I am afraid that will break things again.
Because again the research I have been doing about the errors I am getting suggest those are probably fixes.
Please feel free to suggest things that I can try instead.
I fixed the error with the desktop by taking ownership of the folder via the command line and using TAKEOWN /F "C:\....
I am still getting the following error when i try to open control panel or windows explorer, etc...