Scarthy © ® ™ Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 Hi all ;),Well I am finally back "up and running" after a reformat/ reinstall...I was editing some photographs with Paint and Photoshop last night when my mouse lights went out and all my windows froze. I couldn't do a "ctrl+alt+delete" - nothing happened at all so I pressed the reset button on my tower.When Windows started up it said " \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" is missing or corrupted.I tried restarting with my XP disc installed and repairing my Windows installation with Recovery Console, but no luck there either.So I have had to reformat ! ! ! - A H H H H H H H ! ! ! ! - Oh and I haven't backed up any of my photos/ music/ latest downloads (from past few weeks)/ IE Favourites/ Emails/ etc etc... So I have lost them all...(sob)So here I go from scratch again. 51 weeks since the last reformat...What a *!*!*!*!..Got to get a load of updates now (40+ MB even with SP1 installed !);) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LB Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 oooooohhh, thats painful. Welcome back though and good luck with your updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 time to consider making an 'image' of your sorted installation?it saves on the swearing, reformating/reinstalling then takes a few minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 You can solve the problem by the following way: 1. Start the system using a windows 98 or windows ME Startup disk. 2. Choose With CD-rom support. 3. At a:\ type c: and press enter. 4. type smartdrv and press enter. 5. Insert the Windows Xp Cd into the cd-rom and at E:\ (use whatever your Cd-rom drive letter is ) type CD i386 and press enter. 6. At e:\i386 type Winnt and press enter. This will start the window XP installation. Once the files are copied to the hard driver you wil be prompted to restart the system. press enter. When you are prompted with the option of choosing the type of installtion, Press "r". You MAAAAY be prompted to choose the driver eg: C:\windows You will be promted for Administrator password. enter the password and press enter. At c:\windows type Fixboot and press enter. This will fix the boot error. type exit and restart the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 Source : http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1026977704 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry That Prevents Windows XP from Starting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarthy © ® ™ Posted September 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 Thanx for the replies......Shame I couldn't get online or into Windows to find out... :D;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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