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Originally Posted by Loitering
Hi
I turned my computer on this morning and instead of loading up it said
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
\windows\system32\config\system
You can attempt to repair this file be starting windows setup using origional setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair."
The problem is, I don't have a setup CD-ROM, the computer is a packard bell, and as such all the installation stuff was allready on the computer. I have tried using the recovery CD, but that doesn't work.
The other problem is, any key I press seems to re-boot the computer, only bringing it back to that message.
Please help me!!
Thank you
James
btw, it's xp home
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Hey ya.
I just wanted to let some peoples know that I was able to resolve this same problem just this morning.
A user on another forum pointed me to this KB article...
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q307545
I didn't follow it exactly but more or less. I booted up off of an NTFS DOS boot disk. I renamed only c:\windows\system32\config\system to system.bak and copied c:\windows\repair\system to c:\windows\system32\config\system.
I was able to boot after that.
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