Computer Related > XP problem Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Hard Cheese Replies: 15
View Threaded 

New Fri 18 Nov 11 08:56 
 XP problem - Hard Cheese
One of the kids PC's running XP Pro SP3:

"Windows could not start because of the following file is missing or corrupt:
C:windowssystem32configsystem
You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup CD, select 'R' at the first screen to start repair."

I have attempted a repair and tried to copy the C:windowssystem32configsystem.bak file though the system cannot find it, perhaps it is also corrupt.

Any ideas?


Thanks.

EDIT: Why are my back slashes deleted?

Last edited by: Cheddar on Fri 18 Nov 11 at 08:57
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:08 
 XP problem - Zero
Check out this link

www.informationweek.com/news/189400897?pgno=1


No idea why your backslashes dont work, as/you/see/mine/are/perfect


Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:21 
 XP problem - Hard Cheese

Thanks Z, actually that reminds me, I have come across the point that you have to select Set Up rather than the Recovery Console to make a repair before though it had slipped my mind.

I will give it a go.




Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:44 
 XP problem - Focusless
>> No idea why your backslashes dont work, as/you/see/mine/are/perfect

...apart from the fact they've been converted to forward slashes :)
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:53 
 XP problem - Iffy
\\

Buy a decent computer. :)

Last edited by: Iffy on Fri 18 Nov 11 at 09:53
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:58 
 XP problem - Zero
\


Took you several goes to get it right tho iffy
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:55 
 XP problem - Zero
>> >> No idea why your backslashes dont work, as/you/see/mine/are/perfect
>>
>> ...apart from the fact they've been converted to forward slashes :)





its to do witht he swear filter removing potential HTML commands



Last edited by: Zero on Fri 18 Nov 11 at 09:58
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:58 
 XP problem - Iffy
A few of my backslashes were deleted when I edited the post, so there is summat going on.

Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:59 
 XP problem - Iffy
\\\\\\\\\\\
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 09:59 
 XP problem - Iffy
One go - above.
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 10:07 
 XP problem - rtj70
A single \ is going to be interpreted as a quote. So to have two \\ you double (so two for each one displayed). That's my thoughts anyway.

When you edit one of them will have not been displayed so when you save the changes it will remove another.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Fri 18 Nov 11 at 10:08
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 10:54 
 XP problem - Hard Cheese

No luck, after screen 6 I got a different screen 7 asking me which partition I wanted to install Windows on then a warning that all data would be lost etc, no repair option.

However I booted into the diagnostics and got 0F00:075D and 0F00:0224 errors, hard disk failure it seems, I will put the disk in another system and see if I can get the data off, there is not much on there of any value anyway.

Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Fri 18 Nov 11 17:23 
 XP problem - Hard Cheese

I put the drive in another system as a secondary drive and extracted all data without any problems, I also replaced the C: windows system32 config system file with the system.bak file and Windows then booted when it was reinstalled in the original computer though other errors appeared.

The error messages indicate that the drive is faulty though it ran fine as a secondary drive. Nevertheless I will replace it.


Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Sat 19 Nov 11 00:26 
 XP problem - devonite
now you`ve got it booting try running chkdsk from "run" in the start menu.
Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Sat 19 Nov 11 09:47 
 XP problem - Hard Cheese

Got enough error messages already, it's toast ...

Reply to this message | Report message
       
New Sat 19 Nov 11 09:59 
 XP problem - Zero
sounds that way, soon as you get moving errors its time to bin it.
Reply to this message | Report message
       
Latest Forum Posts