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

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patio. B)

Never use Norton. It's noted for heavy resource consumption and inefficiency.

Also, clean out the fans if you're experiencing thermally related problems.

i used to put icepacks under mine until it made the ice pack package melt