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XP Hosed by chkdsk ~> Fixed, but now runs REALLY Slow ???

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lokni

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I have been having cooling problems with my computer which I found was attributed to too much thermal paste. After spending the day tweaking my cooling, I turned the system back on and loaded the bios to check temps. Great, system idles at 45 with all fans on max, and at 52 with all fans on low. I restart the system and let it go into XP. It fails and I get a BSOD with an Unmountable_boot_sector error. I pop this into google on a friends computer and get a microsoft webpage that explains this as a built in error, and to run chkdsk /r. I do this but now the system runs, right up until that black and white screen right before windows loads. It shows a status indicator at the bottom. The system locks on this screen and then shows a message that a file is missing and reports it as windowss/system32/config/system. I am guessing that running chkdsk screwed something up. Is there a way to fix this or am I screwed and have to reinstall windows?
 
You can use the WinXP CD and boot to the RECOVERY CONSOLE to fix the SYSTEM HIVE,
rather than doing a full re-install.

Insert WinXP CD and press F8 after BIOS screen.

At the Setup Screen, choose RECOVERY CONSOLE.
Type in the following (press <ENTER> after each line):

md tmp

copy C:\windows\system32\config\system C:\windows\tmp\system.bak

delete C:\windows\system32\config\system

copy C:\windows\repair\system C:\windows\system32\config\system

Now Reboot.

Take care when typing as one error can kill the entire process and would
likely require a FULL re-install of the OS.
 
Ok, it worked to get me back into windows. But now, the computer is running really slow. I mean like as if a pentium 150 with 16 megs of ram tried to run XP slow. The system is a XP3000 with 1 gig of ram. So what might be up now? Is my hard drive dying and trying to tell me something here?
 
happened to me once, never did figure out why, first thing i did was pop the drive as a slave into my main pc, get everything off the hd, and reinstall windows after a nice full format
 
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