OC led to hard restart which led to windows not loading

RollWave

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the first time I tried to start it up again it said that the windows/system config or something to that effect was wrong and that I need to try and repair windows. How do I do this?
 

RollWave

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chkdsk in the recovery console found one or more errors. What command works next?
 

Leros

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So, you overclocked, which led to a problem in windows. Have you gone back down to stock speeds?
 

RollWave

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yeah, I'm back to stock speeds but the windows\system32\config\system (i think) is messed up
 

Leros

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Same thing happened to me. Luckily I backup weekly. Can't help you much more.
 

RollWave

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yeah. I forgot to partition this drive so I could back up stuff to another section...at least this reformat now gives me that chance. Well here we go again :D Got to love tooling around with computers right? The question is whether or not I'm going to try again hehe