Boot critical file c ci.dll is corrupt

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to Mr Makintosh's post on June 28, Hi Ihad that problem on last Thusrday night, while I was on a big urgent project have you ever noticed problems always happen at the worst moment?

I spent my night trying to use Windows' repair tool, with no result. I was not able to start either in safe mode or in any other way. The Report was always pointing an absent or corrupted CI. Finally, I found the solution in a forum. In fact, while Windows' repair tool mentions it as the cause, CI. My yet-excellent antivirus NOD32 was unable to cure the problem when the incident happened. It just reported it, but did not clean it. The solution, in my case, was a virus remover found at Kapersky's.

It took less than 1 minute. Once the HDD back in its original computer, I booted with no problem, and everything worked and still works fine. How satisfied are you with this reply? EasyRE will automatically find and fix many problems, and can also be used to solve this problem with the directions below. The command line chkdsk tool ships with Windows and can be used to check and sometimes repair your drives for filesystem corruption.

More information about how chkdsk operates and how it works can be found in our knowledgebase. The following steps will launch the command line option from Startup Repair on the Windows setup disc and use the chkdsk utility. Unable to boot into the Windows setup CD?

Once the command prompt is launched, enter the following to use the System File Checker to check your installation for corrupted, invalid, or deleted system files. The Professional Edition of Easy Recovery Essentials for Windows features a powerful antivirus and rootkit scanner that can normally resolve this and similar errors caused by viruses, rootkits, trojans, or spyware.

Easy Recovery Essentials searches for viruses and cleans infections on the selected Windows installation. Windows ships with a tool called sfc, which stands for the System File Checker. More information about how sfc operates and when to use it can be found in our knowledgebase. The following steps will launch the command line option from Startup Repair on the Windows setup disc and use the system file checker to attempt a repair of your PC.

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