The procedure entry point GETIUMS could not be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL.

Microsoft enters a special place in my heart when a dialog window displaying this error shows up during a repair installation of XP. Now obviously it’s trying to deregister Windows Media Player and reregister the outdated piece of shite that’s likely on the installation CD, but that multi-billion corporation can’t find the time to fix this error that occurs when trying to repair a post-Service Pack 1 installation. The motherfucking solution is here but I’m not a happy panda!

Yeah, computer hard drive that’s been clicking and seemingly powering down over the past month finally took a shit when I tried to shut down last night. XP’s shut down screen sat at the “Shuting Down…” screen for a couple minutes so I said, “FUCK THIS SHIT!” and powered it down. When I tried starting it today it would showing a bluescreen for a millisecond on startup then reboot. The one time I managed to get into XP (without my account profile, display settings, etc. enabled?), I copied over all the semi-important files to my good drive. I then restarted hoping to get my profile back but again I was getting the reboots. So I ran chkdsk and now I’m trying to repair the XP partition and try to run it temporary off my wonky disk until I have enough money to buy a new damn computer. >:|