Repair help

[Henrik]

Want to second the ask for help; I ran into exactly the
same problem two days ago. Gave up the recovery console
and enjoyed completely reinstalling and updating XP Home.
All apps installations not found. Anyone to give a tip on
quick recover??
Rgds
H

>-----Original Message-----
>I am wondering if anyone has run into the same problem
as
>I am getting and if so doyou know how to fix it. I tried
>burning a cd and it gave me an error that rebooted my
>computer. Upon reboot it came up to a screen talking
>about a missing file. The system instructed me to use
the
>original setup cdrom and select r at the first screen to
>start repair. I did this and was always brought back to
>the same screen. What the screen says is
>
>Windows could not start because the following file is
>missing or corrupt:
>\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.
>
>If anyone has had this problem and knows how to fix it
>please let me know ASAP. I have important info on that
>system that I was about to transfer that is due soon.
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Matt
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