weird XP boot problem

[MOSFETmania]

Hello,
I have been using XP for over 2 months, but when I try to boot into my XP partition just few days ago, it gives me an error message that "the following file is missing or corrupted: windows/system32/config/system." It suggested me to try to repair it by starting windows setup using the CD-ROM and then press "r" for repair. This simply brings me to a DOS interface, but I still don't know how to fix this problem under DOS. I also tried to use the automated system recovery option, but unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the system recovery floopy. Now I can't boot into my XP partition, which makes my life really hard. Any help will be appreciated!

thanks in advance,
Ben

 

[fr]

Looks like the system registry hive is corrupt. I had a similar problem with Windows 2000 a few months ago. Hope you did your backups.

Check in Windows\Repair. There should be a backup of the file. You could rename it and replace the one in Windows\System32\Config, but depending on how old the backup is, you may have big problems getting it to work still.

 

[millsy]

I had same problem about week ago.
I sure I seen an article on this somewhere in MS support pages.
check out linky for some info.

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to fix my so ended up reinstalling.