Cycloptersaurus
n00b
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2006
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Last night, I noticed images on my computer were displaying strange color and alignment were off, etc. Then, Firefox started crashing, very frequently. Eventually, my computer just up and crashed. I tried rebooting, and it would get pretty far, windows logo screen, or the user select screen, and then crash again. It would occasionally crash during the boot. When I did occasionally successfully boot, all my icons on the desktop looked as usual.
Then I started getting this message when booting up:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
C:\windows\system32\config\system
You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup CD-Rom. Select "r" at the first screen to start repair.
I couldnt find my original XP x64 cd, so I tried regular XP instead. Crashed as it was loading the drivers and what not, no notification, the computer was just suddenly off, just like the crashes earlier.
I finally find my XP x64 cd, and when I try booting from it, I get this message:
"the file dmboot.sys is corrupted."
So I go back from booting from HD, and I start getting this message:
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.
Please re-install a copy of the above file"
Ive been able to occasionally boot into safe mode with command prompt, and I ran chkdsk from there, to no avail. Since I cant get into the Recovery console, I dont know what to do. I REALLY dont want to lose stuff on my HD, would reinstalling XP64 lose everything? I have Vista lying around too, so I could install that if I didnt lose anything from my HD. Ive got lots of files that I absolutely need. What could be the problem? How can I fix this?
Then I started getting this message when booting up:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
C:\windows\system32\config\system
You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup CD-Rom. Select "r" at the first screen to start repair.
I couldnt find my original XP x64 cd, so I tried regular XP instead. Crashed as it was loading the drivers and what not, no notification, the computer was just suddenly off, just like the crashes earlier.
I finally find my XP x64 cd, and when I try booting from it, I get this message:
"the file dmboot.sys is corrupted."
So I go back from booting from HD, and I start getting this message:
"Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.
Please re-install a copy of the above file"
Ive been able to occasionally boot into safe mode with command prompt, and I ran chkdsk from there, to no avail. Since I cant get into the Recovery console, I dont know what to do. I REALLY dont want to lose stuff on my HD, would reinstalling XP64 lose everything? I have Vista lying around too, so I could install that if I didnt lose anything from my HD. Ive got lots of files that I absolutely need. What could be the problem? How can I fix this?