Frank M
December 5th 03, 01:17 AM
the same thing just happened to my roomate this morning
and he is um....angry, to say the least. his rig is an
AMD 1.333Mhz on an ABIT AT7-MAX2 with 1GB of Kingston
hyperX 333 mem. running fine last night.
>-----Original Message-----
>Today received "update ready to download" message and
>clicked on the icon and installed. On re-booting
received
>message "Windows could not start because the following
>file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32
>\config\system. 5 hours later after much trying,
>installed XP Pro to a different hard drive and was
>installing updates and service packs. When got to
latest
>update, this error re-occurred.
>
>I can't figure out how to get thru all the crap to let
>someone at MS know about this problem. I reinstalled
>WINXP today, and now I'm going to have to install again
>and am expecting re-regristration hassle. Good Grief!!!
>
>Ken
>.
>
and he is um....angry, to say the least. his rig is an
AMD 1.333Mhz on an ABIT AT7-MAX2 with 1GB of Kingston
hyperX 333 mem. running fine last night.
>-----Original Message-----
>Today received "update ready to download" message and
>clicked on the icon and installed. On re-booting
received
>message "Windows could not start because the following
>file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32
>\config\system. 5 hours later after much trying,
>installed XP Pro to a different hard drive and was
>installing updates and service packs. When got to
latest
>update, this error re-occurred.
>
>I can't figure out how to get thru all the crap to let
>someone at MS know about this problem. I reinstalled
>WINXP today, and now I'm going to have to install again
>and am expecting re-regristration hassle. Good Grief!!!
>
>Ken
>.
>