Unable to boot windows

Mon 8th Feb 2010 6:48pm

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Alright folks,

I'm having a right nightmare with my bastard of a PC at the moment. When I turn it on it comes straight up with an error saying -

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt

"WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM".

I have various partitions and therefore I don't need to keep anything on the C: drive so I reinstalled windows. All worked fine for a couple of hours, turned it off and back on, BAM, same error. Tried once more and still the same error. I use XP and even tried installing Vista but still the same problem.

What the fuck do I need to do?

Anybody got a half decent 2nd hand PC for sale??

Many thanks

sleeK

Mon 8th Feb 2010 6:50pm

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what os you on mate?

Mon 8th Feb 2010 6:59pm

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XP pro SP2

Mon 8th Feb 2010 7:03pm

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well it's defo a corrupt reg file, but if i'm correct, you have to go into regedit to fix it. strange thing is tho that a format didn't work :S

Mon 8th Feb 2010 7:06pm

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can you boot in safe mode?

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Alansk1

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can you boot in safe mode?

Haven't tried that actually mate. I'm not at home at the moment, don't think it will let me though.

Mon 8th Feb 2010 7:13pm

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also try a system restore. you may of accidently deleted or misplaced a reg file. anyway try those 2 things bud then get back to me.

danblu3

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Put in system disk, go to repair options, go to command prompt or if its XP it should log on automatically.

Type chkdsk -r

Fixed.

Mon 8th Feb 2010 7:23pm

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yea could work cos it replaces loss data so yeah try that aswell bud.

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I'll give that a try cheers dan mate when I get home. Thanks for the help guys!

danblu3

Mon 8th Feb 2010 7:31pm

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Theres also sfc /scannow but i think that can only be done in windows enviroment with admin priveleges... sometimes work in safe mode as well but its weird.

That checks your Windows Files and checks they are all there etc... great after virus scans(!)

thc^

Mon 8th Feb 2010 7:33pm

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Edit:- srry didnt read the post properly and jumped the gun Big grin

Edited by thc^ on 09/02/10 1:12pm

Mon 8th Feb 2010 7:38pm

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kinda is as boot.ini is for deciding what options to display when you start you comp :S

Edited by BuffY SumMers on 08/02/10 8:11pm

Keith Chegwin

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danblu3 said...

it works within the Windows recovery console too.

sleeK

Mon 8th Feb 2010 8:14pm

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danblu3 said...

Put in system disk, go to repair options, go to command prompt or if its XP it should log on automatically.

Type chkdsk -r

Fixed.

pLo

Tue 9th Feb 2010 10:08am

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if a format didn't work what makes you think repairing it will?

in my small minded opinion your hard drive is almost deaded, a mate of mine had the same problem, helped him out with it, corrupted 3 times in a month period and now won't even format propperly.

if you can't afford a new hard drive you could try running some repair tools, another friend had some great results from repairing faulty sectors but it took him like 2-3 days solid

sleeK

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ideally you need to dl a diagnostic tool for your hd, what make is it?

Wed 10th Feb 2010 1:35pm