Segmoria
11-25-2005, 07:48 PM
Hi,
The last two days I've been having some alerts about bad-blocks on my boot-disk so I decided to run an Error-check hoping that problems would be fixed, as there were no major problems from the disk other than the event-viewer error messages.
When I returned to Windows I noticed that although my main computer had internet access, it wasn't supplying an IP address to the other pc that is on the LAN.
After a while I also noticed that even the ipconfig dos utility wasn't working, giving me an error about not being able to find the file "netshell.dll". So I went and reinstalled this dll (by gettting a copy from the system32/dllcache folder). The utility now works as normal, but I still have problems like the fact that I can't see the "Status" of the LAN connection, I click on the option or even double click on the LAN icon but it does nothing. And most of all the other pc still doesn't get an IP address.
I'm afraid that the Windows Error-checking tool might have eliminated some dlls or other crusial files that deal with networking since this was the boot-disk.
Has anyone come across anything similar to this behaviour? I've been trying to find if the ipconfig or the network monitoring tools are part of something that I can reinstall, but no luck so far. Any help,info or ideas on this will be very much appreciated, I really hate it that my other pc can't have internet access. And I only pray that I wont have to do any fresh windows reinstalling.
PS. I haven't used any program that strips-down windows like nLite, nor have I installed anything new or really performed anything out of the "ordinary" these last two days.
Plus I know with certainty that it also is not affected with any spyware/trojans/virii.
Thus I assume all this trouble comes from something modified by the checkdisc as the disc itself had many bad blocks.
The last two days I've been having some alerts about bad-blocks on my boot-disk so I decided to run an Error-check hoping that problems would be fixed, as there were no major problems from the disk other than the event-viewer error messages.
When I returned to Windows I noticed that although my main computer had internet access, it wasn't supplying an IP address to the other pc that is on the LAN.
After a while I also noticed that even the ipconfig dos utility wasn't working, giving me an error about not being able to find the file "netshell.dll". So I went and reinstalled this dll (by gettting a copy from the system32/dllcache folder). The utility now works as normal, but I still have problems like the fact that I can't see the "Status" of the LAN connection, I click on the option or even double click on the LAN icon but it does nothing. And most of all the other pc still doesn't get an IP address.
I'm afraid that the Windows Error-checking tool might have eliminated some dlls or other crusial files that deal with networking since this was the boot-disk.
Has anyone come across anything similar to this behaviour? I've been trying to find if the ipconfig or the network monitoring tools are part of something that I can reinstall, but no luck so far. Any help,info or ideas on this will be very much appreciated, I really hate it that my other pc can't have internet access. And I only pray that I wont have to do any fresh windows reinstalling.
PS. I haven't used any program that strips-down windows like nLite, nor have I installed anything new or really performed anything out of the "ordinary" these last two days.
Plus I know with certainty that it also is not affected with any spyware/trojans/virii.
Thus I assume all this trouble comes from something modified by the checkdisc as the disc itself had many bad blocks.