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problems with boot up - system32\config\system
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problems with boot up - system32\config\system
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 9:29 am
Posted by cj
(3 messages posted)
When booting up I am getting this message
'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
C:\windows\system32\config\system '
You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original
setup CD-Rom. Select "r" at the first screen to start repair.
My plans to fix this have been thwarted by the fact that no matter what I tell the
BIOS to do in terms of boot up, it doesn't have it. I have tried changing the 1st
Boot disk setting to Floppy, CD ROM, everything...but it still insists on ignoring
it, I have even changed ALL three boot disks to CD Rom and the light on the CD Rom
device does not even flash, it just goes straigh to the error
'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
C:\windows\system32\config\system
You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original
setup CD-Rom. Select "r" at the first screen to start repair.'
Anyone know whats up - many thanks
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re: problems with boot up - system32\config\system
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(12246 messages posted)
Can you boot from a diskette? If you, you can download the set of 6 diskette images
from here. Once you boot them, you should be able to start the Recovery Console.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994
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re: problems with boot up - system32\config\system
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Posted by cj
(3 messages posted)
Thanks for your advice - I did what you said - downloaded the floppies, got the PC
to boot from floppy and when I inserted disk 1 it read it and then just displayed
the same error it had before ! ? Any ideas - is there an alternative boot disk that
just leads me straight into Dos C: prompt and gives me a chance to load the WIndows
set up disk into the CD drive and perhaps let me continue from there. Or perhaps
even manually try and recover that file ?
many thanks
On Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 1:37 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>Can you boot from a diskette? If you, you can download the set of 6 diskette images
>from here. Once you boot them, you should be able to start the Recovery Console.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994
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re: problems with boot up - system32\config\system
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz
(12246 messages posted)
Yes, you can but I have a suspicion you may not be able to boot anything, though
I hope not.
Download a Windows 98 SE boot disk form Windows
98 SE. Create the diskette and boot it. Select option 1 to load CD support. When
it gets to the command prompt, put your XP CD in the CD drive then enter d:\i386\winnt.
That should start the standard XP install.
When you get to the part where you chose where to install, I would delete the
existing partition, create a new one then format as NTFS and install.
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