ChocoBoy Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 After having run rock stable in what seems like forever, my XP Pro suddenly died this morning. When trying to boot up my system it says that /windows/system32/config/system is deleted or damaged and it stops. I've tried booting under last stable setup and the same happens. Is there any way to repair this or am I screwed???
Drewdatrip Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 Try this...Boot from the cd and select the repair option. You will we taken to a comand prompt like thing. This is the repair comand prompt. Select the partition that Xp is on and type this "sfc/scannow" (without any spaces). Also if its a spacific file giving you an error then maybe try to find the file on another Xp system, put it on a floppy and try to replace the file, you can do this with dos comands, but inorder to do this you have to find the file and where its located....Goodluck-Drew
Hudson-Manx Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 I would use the recovery console to repair your broken install, to do this you will need to use your Windows XP CD. Place your CD in your CDROM drive then boot from CD. Press F2 key to start the ASR. You may be prompted to insert a floppy disk, just press return. Your CD should then take you to the recovery console, you will be prompted by recovery console asking which installation of Windows you want to repair, choose the drive Windows XP is installed on. Then you will be asked for your administrator password. If you have no admin password just press enter to continue. Now you will see a command prompt, type chkdsk /p this will begin checking your windows XP source files and repairing them. Hopefully this will sort out your problem. If your problem is solved I would recommend installing the Recovery Console incase of future problems. See technical articles below on Microsoft support.http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307545How to install recovery console; click the following link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307654Hope this works for you.Thanks
Aaron Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 I wish MS would put all these knowledge base articles on CD or something, it would really help me to troubleshoot problems on a LAN network I have (no net connection)
piaqt Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 I wish MS would put all these knowledge base articles on CD or something, it would really help me to troubleshoot problems on a LAN network I have (no net connection) [/quote:a392462d3c] Go to http://www.kbAlertz.com. They'll notify you any time a new kb article is published, according to your own criteria. They also have a searchable database.[/color:a392462d3c]
Aaron Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 Yeah... but that still requires the Internet.What I really meant, is that I wish all of the MS KB articles were on CD so that I can access some of them from CD when I'm in an area with no net access, for example, my LAN (which my other PC is at)Useful site anyway, thanks piaqt.
Aaron Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 Microsoft or another site could create an HTML Help file with all the MS KB articles in it. Could take a very long time to start with, then updated monthly.... An idea yes?
babis Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 take permission from MS.. and go for it ... or team up with kbAlertz... and again go for it not sure if that will work.. mainly cause MS wouldn't like the idea of having some other site have thier KB all in one simple pack..my 2 cents..
zErO Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 It would be good yes but like babis pointed out having all of MS KB on an easy HTML help file would be too easy, MS want you to spend hours souring over the net looking for solutions, gives you time to see all the upcoming MS products and existing ones
XPerties Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 Yeah... but that still requires the Internet.What I really meant, is that I wish all of the MS KB articles were on CD so that I can access some of them from CD when I'm in an area with no net access, for example, my LAN (which my other PC is at)Useful site anyway, thanks piaqt. [/quote:402c24ff7a]have you tried the books on XP or the corp Tech support disk or XP. those are very good and can walk you through just about anything.-Xperties
Aaron Posted March 4, 2002 Posted March 4, 2002 The books suck really, tells you stuff you already know. If you see some of the good stuff on the KB database, you can see if a particular product has a bug, if its due to be fixed, patch availability, command line switches for some of the programs, etc. You won't get any of that in any XP Books.
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