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03-26-2007, 05:56 PM
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Newb Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3
|  System32 file missing or corrupt
On start up I get the following message:
"C:\windows\system32\config\system missing or corrupt" and windows stops loading.
Can someone please advise on how to solve the problem? | 
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03-26-2007, 06:07 PM
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Not Worth The Explanation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mount Prospect, IL Posts: 8,878
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
Pop in windows XP Disk, boot off of it, go to install windows, it will detect a previous installation. Hit R for repair.
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03-27-2007, 11:00 PM
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I know <html>, do you? Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 1,643
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
sounds to me like someone must of hacked in ur system and killed the file(s) or ur HD has bad sectors
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03-28-2007, 12:12 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 13,714
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
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Originally Posted by Ste  Pop in windows XP Disk, boot off of it, go to install windows, it will detect a previous installation. Hit R for repair. | you don't have to do a repair-install.
When you boot from the XP disk, all you need to do is go to the recovery console, and once you log on, type the following commands: del C:\Windows\system32\config\system
copy C:\windows\repair\system C:\windows\system32\config\system
exit
Windows will boot after that. Quote:
Originally Posted by sylwek sounds to me like someone must of hacked in ur system and killed the file(s) or ur HD has bad sectors | I highly doubt it. There are lots of ways files can become corrupt.
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Last edited by Apokalipse; 03-28-2007 at 12:14 AM.
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03-28-2007, 12:14 AM
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Not Worth The Explanation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mount Prospect, IL Posts: 8,878
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
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Originally Posted by Apokalipse you don't have to do a repair-install.
When you boot from the XP disk, all you need to do is go to the recovery console, and once you log on, type the following commands:
del C:\Windows\system32\config\system
copy C:\windows\repair\system C:\windows\system32\config\system
exit
Windows will boot after that. | Or that....
But thats assuming: that the file listed is the only damaged or missing component of windows. And sometimes its not, so a windows repair takes care of anything else.. | |
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03-28-2007, 12:17 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 13,714
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
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Originally Posted by Ste Or that....
But thats assuming: that the file listed is the only damaged or missing component of windows. And sometimes its not, so a windows repair takes care of anything else.. | I highly doubt the backup copy will be corrupt.
Even if it is, he can still try a repair-install afterwards.
Typing in the commands in the recovery console takes a lot less time, though.
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03-28-2007, 12:19 AM
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Not Worth The Explanation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mount Prospect, IL Posts: 8,878
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
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Originally Posted by Apokalipse I highly doubt the backup copy will be corrupt.
Even if it is, he can still try a repair-install afterwards.
Typing in the commands in the recovery console takes a lot less time, though. | You got PM. | |
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04-07-2007, 08:18 PM
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Ultra Techie Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 644
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
who do you run a repair install? i have this same problem but i have multiple files corrupt
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04-07-2007, 10:23 PM
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I know <html>, do you? Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 1,643
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
pop in the xp cd , go to repair and once your in the console Type "chkdsk /r" then enter. When done type "exit" and hit enter.
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04-07-2007, 11:09 PM
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Not Worth The Explanation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Mount Prospect, IL Posts: 8,878
| Re: System32 file missing or corrupt
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Originally Posted by spikoman69 who do you run a repair install? i have this same problem but i have multiple files corrupt | To replace currupt or missing system files. | |
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