Registry problems, need help

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Dedatorv

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So two nights ago my computer was 100% fine, turned it off for the night, went to turn it back on and during boot up I get this error "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM "

I googled it up and found a solution for it that was actually provided by microsoft, tried it out and it doesnt work.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us When I try to copy the first stuff it tells me that it does not exist. So I am already stuck.

Anyone know the solution or an alternative? I've got Win XP Home.

If there isnt a fix for it, is there a cd boot up operating system that I can use to copy all my important files on the current drive to my storage drive? I mean one that I can use to browse thru the folders, select stuff and drag it over?

Thanks in advance.
 
If all else fails, you could always reinstall Windows from the cd or boot from the CD and get it to do it's repair mode.
 
Was this system overclocked?
Have you checked to see that the settings in the bios are correct? If auto, set them manually.
Have you run memtest86 a few full passes to see if your RAM may have died?
 
try running a repair install of WinXP over the top of the current install and see if that fixes it. As long as you dont do a fresh install all your stuff will still be there and assuming its not something huge causing the problem it should work just fine.
 
Blauman said:
try running a repair install of WinXP over the top of the current install and see if that fixes it. As long as you dont do a fresh install all your stuff will still be there and assuming its not something huge causing the problem it should work just fine.
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both people who have mentioned this solution are correct, it's just that it doesn't fix whatever caused the issue. by installing windows on top of itself you lose a fair amount of your settings, but you won't lose your files.
 
Your option is to repair it ,usually this can be so easily done if you have a ERD(emergency Repair Disk) and when sytems files get corpted these help.

Repair it and this time round just make one especially if you are going to overclock cos i know myself i buggered it up doing that.

The way you make one is go to Run and then type NTbackup after that there is a wizard that will run you through on how to make it.

You can later use this to repair your files there is another way but you have to enable this first before this happened and that is system restore and chances are you must have not done this.

You know when you install windows and on the first option screen that come syou press R for repair and it will then use your ERD you made and will restore your system files which you need to load up XP.

The red disk contains about 4mb of files , sometimnes it less, it depends

Sorry i couldnt help you before.
 
if anything just run the repair to get back into windows so you can at least save files that may not be backed up. I agree with quadnad that it doesnt shed light on what may have caused it but its a place to start. It may be a freak thing or it may not. But until you either repair your current install or start all over there is no way to tell with 100% certainty what exacly caused this. Most of the MS error screens give you just enough info and searching the issue can either be of some help or make no sense what so ever. Also on rare occasions you can try booting to the repair console and running a full chkdsk scan and maybe try running fixboot and fixmbr commands. With the issue you have though the likelyhood of those fixing it is slim but anything is worth a shot before a full re-install is performed IMO. But the way I see it the only thing that should really matter is what data, if any, you need to get off the hard drive.
 
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