Corrupt Config\Sys

I get an error message "missing or damaged Config\System" on startup. I don't have a disc for a restoration? The computer company has no disks by their Web site. Anyone know what I can do?

To recover from this, you will need to restart your computer from a system bootable from a CD player.  My favorite system is free Linux Livecd as Knoppix or Ubuntu.  (If you choose Ubuntu, make sure that you choose the option "Try Me" so that you do not install it on your disk). Hiren's Boot CD is another choice.  Make you these disks by downloading a file .iso on another computer and use the option "Burn Image" of your CD burner to make a CD bootable from the file.

Once you boot from this CD, you follow the steps in the following article from part 2, step 6 (since you are using a bootable CD).  You will have to move, rename, and copy files using native methods according to your boot CD (IE right click copy, do a right click stick instead of using the "copy" command), but otherwise, follow the instructions in the article.

"How do I recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP startup"
  <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307545 >

You don't have to restart between parts 2 and 3 but will need to reboot and remove the CD before part 4.  You will find that this procedure essentially copy backups of your 5 registry of the \System Volume Information folder files in the directory that houses your registry files.  Linux live CD with no problems with security placed in this directory.

If this procedure success, your first step then would be to update your backups and then perform a check disk operation as hard disk is probably damaged.

HTH,
JW

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