Computer won't start

Hello. I need anyone's help.

Yesterday my laptop froze up and I had to shut it down. When I went to restart the computer it would try to start up but couldn't. I briefly received the blue screen of death, but the computer shut down so quickly afterwards I couldn't see what the message was. I was finally able to stop the computer from starting automatically and was given an error "Stop C000221 Bad image checksum. Uswer 32.dll is possibly corrupt. The header check sum does not match the computed check sum."

After checking the MS website I was told that I only needed to replace the 32.dll file from MS XP operating disk. I was never given one of these disks. I was only given recovery disks (which I know contained MS XP). when I inserted the disks I only wanted to restore the system without changing the HD partitions. I CANNOT lose any files that are on that computer. After I tried to restore the computer I saw a message saying "Creating CRC file/drive." Then at the end, the computer gave me an error message saying "recovery error...turn off computer."  I now can't get the computer to start. I just keep getting a black screen. I can, however, get to the boot menu.

 What I really want to know is if there's any way to hook the laptop up to my desktop and move the files I need to the desktop even though the laptop is off. I don't really have the money to take the computer in to a shop to get looked at. I would really like to just connect an ethernet cable to the laptop and just move the files. I was wondering if that's possible? Once I move the files then I can just restore the entire system (HD and all).

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

You can't do a network transfer but you can indeed just hook it up to another computer and get the files that way. Has anybody tried creating a boot disc with the dll file on it? Does anybody think that will work?

you probably won't be able to just hoke up the laptop to the desktop and transfer the files. What you can probably do though is remove the hard drive from the laptop and either place it in a friends laptop or buy an adopter so that it will work in your desktop. You'll have to find out what the interface of desktops motherboard is and what the interface of your laptops hard drive is; but popular options for the desktop are 3.5/5.25 inch ATA and SATA, for the laptop popular interfaces are 2.5 inch ATA and SATA. Most likely the desktop is 3.5/5.25 inch ATA and the laptop is SATA. Though I'm only confident, and not absolutely certain, that the SATA used for laptops and desktops are the same size.