Frankie Deschacht
December 6th 03, 01:42 PM
Thank you for your reply Gary.
I have found the way to fix it and managed to do it too
(although with a bit of trial and error as the
explanation by Microsoft is not 100% accurate).
My question, however, was : "Why does my registry keep
becoming corrupted ?"
After I have fixed it, nothing has happened yet (touch
wood), but I had that corruption problem over and over
again.
There wer no viruses, I ran Maxtor's PowerMax utility and
my HDD is 100% certified error free, so, what could have
caused that constant corruption.
There was also the matter of sometimes the balloon
popping up, telling me about a corrupted file (see
original posting).
Any advice will be very welcome.
Thanks,
Frankie.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I often get the message "Windows will not start because
>>C:\WINDOWS\System32\config\system is missing or
corrupt".
>>I have now learned how to restore Windows when this
>>happens.
>>The only question is: Why does it keep happening?
>>Where could the fault be?
>>Also, sometimes when I work in Windows, a text balloon
>>pops up in my
>>taskbar telling me "This or that file is corrupted,
>>please run the
>>chkdsk utility", how do I do that?
>>What I do is: Start->Run->chkdsk /r.
>>Then it asks if I want to schedule it for the next boot
>>up, to which I
>>answer yes.
>>When I then reboot and chkdsk starts, I often get the
>>message
>>"Insufficient disk space to correct error in
file.....",
>>and this is
>>often followed by "An unspecified error occured".
>>Then, usually, after that, I get the same misery again
>>(about
>>"C:\WINDOWS\System32\config\system is missing or
>>corrupt").
>>Can anyone shed some light on this please, as I am
tired
>>of
>>re-installing or restoring Windows.
>>Thanks,
>>Frankie.
>>.
>
>
>To fix this see this MS article:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/1773
>
>To access the Recovery Console:
>1) Insert the Windows CD and restart your computer.
Follow
>your computer's prompts to start from the CD. (You may
>need to adjust settings in the computer's BIOS to enable
>the option to start from a CD.)
>2) Follow the setup prompts to load the basic Windows
>startup files. At the Welcome To Setup screen, press R
to
>start the Recovery Console.
>3) If you have multiple options on the Windows startup
>menu, enter the number of the Windows installation you
>want to access from the Recovery Console.
>4) When prompted, type the Administrator password. If
>you're using the Recovery Console on a system running
>Windows XP Home Edition, this password is blank by
>default, so just press Enter.
>5) At the command prompt, enter Recovery Console
commands
>directly.
>6) To quit the Recovery Console and restart the
computer,
>use the Exit command.
>
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Gary Thorn
>MVP-Windows Technologies/Xbox
>Associate Expert
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>confers no rights
>
>More about the Windows XP Expert Zone:
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>More about the MS MVP Program:
>http://tinyurl.com/n08
>.
>
I have found the way to fix it and managed to do it too
(although with a bit of trial and error as the
explanation by Microsoft is not 100% accurate).
My question, however, was : "Why does my registry keep
becoming corrupted ?"
After I have fixed it, nothing has happened yet (touch
wood), but I had that corruption problem over and over
again.
There wer no viruses, I ran Maxtor's PowerMax utility and
my HDD is 100% certified error free, so, what could have
caused that constant corruption.
There was also the matter of sometimes the balloon
popping up, telling me about a corrupted file (see
original posting).
Any advice will be very welcome.
Thanks,
Frankie.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I often get the message "Windows will not start because
>>C:\WINDOWS\System32\config\system is missing or
corrupt".
>>I have now learned how to restore Windows when this
>>happens.
>>The only question is: Why does it keep happening?
>>Where could the fault be?
>>Also, sometimes when I work in Windows, a text balloon
>>pops up in my
>>taskbar telling me "This or that file is corrupted,
>>please run the
>>chkdsk utility", how do I do that?
>>What I do is: Start->Run->chkdsk /r.
>>Then it asks if I want to schedule it for the next boot
>>up, to which I
>>answer yes.
>>When I then reboot and chkdsk starts, I often get the
>>message
>>"Insufficient disk space to correct error in
file.....",
>>and this is
>>often followed by "An unspecified error occured".
>>Then, usually, after that, I get the same misery again
>>(about
>>"C:\WINDOWS\System32\config\system is missing or
>>corrupt").
>>Can anyone shed some light on this please, as I am
tired
>>of
>>re-installing or restoring Windows.
>>Thanks,
>>Frankie.
>>.
>
>
>To fix this see this MS article:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/1773
>
>To access the Recovery Console:
>1) Insert the Windows CD and restart your computer.
Follow
>your computer's prompts to start from the CD. (You may
>need to adjust settings in the computer's BIOS to enable
>the option to start from a CD.)
>2) Follow the setup prompts to load the basic Windows
>startup files. At the Welcome To Setup screen, press R
to
>start the Recovery Console.
>3) If you have multiple options on the Windows startup
>menu, enter the number of the Windows installation you
>want to access from the Recovery Console.
>4) When prompted, type the Administrator password. If
>you're using the Recovery Console on a system running
>Windows XP Home Edition, this password is blank by
>default, so just press Enter.
>5) At the command prompt, enter Recovery Console
commands
>directly.
>6) To quit the Recovery Console and restart the
computer,
>use the Exit command.
>
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Gary Thorn
>MVP-Windows Technologies/Xbox
>Associate Expert
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>confers no rights
>
>More about the Windows XP Expert Zone:
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>More about the MS MVP Program:
>http://tinyurl.com/n08
>.
>