jjjordan86

Hi Everyone! I have a topic I haven't seen discussed in this terms. My laptop overheated (I think it overheated and shut off, anyway) when I tried to use Norton. So I went into safe mode since they recommended running it there and then in regular mode in case something else was preventing it from running (we thought/think maybe we have a virus). The laptop shut down in the restore process and then had the corrupt SYSTEM file error. I ran the recovery center off our dell desktop CD (the acer laptop only has a format/reinstall - not a recovery disk) and got that fixed, then we had the missing Hal.dll and I wound up rebuilding the boot.ini file. Now when I boot it goes into setup and has the "Internal Setup Data Structures Are Corrupted"... error. I just want to boot - not reinstall Windows. Any ideas on how I can get into Windows without reinstalling? And if I have to reinstall any way to get around that? Thanks everyone! Josh