widnows could not start... windows/system32/config/system is corrput or missing

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: bob4432

i did run chkdsk /p and it said no errors or.

how would i go about getting the hive?

One of three ways:

1. Boot with a Bart's PE boot disk and copy it off to a thumb drive
2. Lay down a parallel install (yuck!)
3. Use Ghost explorer to extract a copy of it from the original image.

 

[bob4432]

i was able to "look" at the drive with the boot cd for acronis drive image and found that the drive only has 50MB open on the main partition, could that be causing these problems?

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Smilin
In about 1 in 4 times a chkdsk /p from recovery console will fix this right away.

looks like i got luck, i was the 1 in 4. that machine only has ~50MB free space. i am going to give it back to the guy and tell him to delete some sh~t.

thanks for the help peeps