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| Thread ID: 43831 | 2004-03-28 07:12:00 | Xp wont start - Windows\System32\config\system is corrupt | agent_24 (4330) | Press F1 |
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| 225627 | 2004-03-28 07:12:00 | for those of you who have commented on and helped me with my "failing" harddrive problem - i seem to have gotten that fixed. by taking out one of my floppy drives, it appears to work. anyway - to the main point. after taking out the floppy drive and booting up (well, tried to boot), my computer told me that \Windows\System32\config\system is corrupt, and it cant start. now usually something gets corrupt when my harddrive is turning off randomly, so i assumed that going into recovery console and running CHKDSK would fix it. (it did all the other times boot data was corrupted for various reasons, including the randomly turning off harddrive.) anyway. this time CHKDSK said that there were errors (well, i knew that already cause windows was saying that its funny config\system was corrupt) and i told CHKDSK to fix them. it did that for about 2 hours (as usual), and then proceeded to tell me that it had fixed them. however on restarting, it still had the same message. so i ran CHKDSK again, and it did the same thing. i tried running seatools, the only other HDD checker i had available, and it also told me i had errors, but i couldnt find a "fix" option. If anyone can tell me how to fix this, or reccomend some other disk-checking program, (not too big please, the computer i am typing this on has a 14k modem, and only a floppy drive), then that would be great. thanks. | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 225628 | 2004-03-28 07:50:00 | I'm not too sure of it's size but Steve Gibson's SpinRite (http://grc.com/) is mean't to be the best of the bunch. You have to pay for it though. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 225629 | 2004-03-28 08:13:00 | I think thats the registry thats kaput. You might be able to restore it from a backup. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 225630 | 2004-03-28 08:21:00 | err - how am i meant to do that? i have heard that windows backs its registry up everytime it starts, and if XP does that, then good - but how to re-install the automated backups? i dont usually backup my registry manually, because nothing like this usually happens..... |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 225631 | 2004-03-28 08:36:00 | Take a look at this article - it's for WXP - I guess thats the OS in question? MS KB Article (support.microsoft.com) |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 225632 | 2004-03-28 10:15:00 | aye, thats the OS, and thanks alot too - it solved my problem and im now able to type this up on a computer that a faster modem..... | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 225633 | 2004-03-28 18:31:00 | Try starting in safe mode and then use system restore. It may work. If this fails then put in your XP disk and reinstall win over you present copy. | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 225634 | 2004-03-29 01:23:00 | JJJJJ, Does it do an install over the old copy of XP and keep all your settings and files or does it blow it away and start again.??? I know of someone who has this problem. WIN XP PC won't boot after splash screen and he dosn't know the recovery consol password.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 225635 | 2004-03-29 01:40:00 | It should install over the old one and rewrite any missing files. Though it usualy misses corrupted files. Win does give a warning that some files like my documents could be damaged. I've got away with it a couple of times. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 225636 | 2004-03-29 03:26:00 | i got it fixed, but booting into safe mode wouldnt have worked anyway, because the error comes right after the post, and before it starts loading anything OS. i think you have to do the system restore through dos (well, thats what i did.) | agent_24 (4330) | ||
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