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Post by Wonderben : Ricky Hatton on Oct 22, 2007 6:21:01 GMT -5
Yeah well last week my PC just turned off while i was on FM, Ever since then it's not worked. I turn it on and it comes up with the following message Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM Insert the Windows XP disk and press R to repair. Well i put the Cd in and with won't let me install or repair or infact even recognise the disk. Now i sometimes manage to get to the following screen but it's just stuck on start windows normally, won't let me move up or down or press enter.  I've tried starting up in safe mode and it won't do anything. I really am stuck, Not sure what to do at all. Anybody got any advice? |
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Post by albireo on Oct 22, 2007 6:31:20 GMT -5
erm yeah, this hapened to 2 of my PC's about a year ago.There are 3 possible ways to fix the problem:
Try installing your OS again,if that doesnt work:
Get a new hard drive and try again,when hard drives corrupt it's almost impossible to get them back again.
The 3rd option is to buy a new PC,but thats a bit drastic at this early stage but i had to do it as there was no other way, i hope the same thins doesnt happen for you.
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Post by jamie2k7 on Oct 22, 2007 6:44:47 GMT -5
They tried to charge me £99.99 to move 2 word documents from one hard drive to another ;|
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Post by poolsclosed on Oct 22, 2007 6:53:04 GMT -5
something prolly exploded inside.
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Post by Wonderben : Ricky Hatton on Oct 22, 2007 7:29:53 GMT -5
1) stop going on porn 2) stop downloading illegal files 3) take your PC to PC World. They'll sort it out. No, No and No  Just reliased that i might be using the wrong XP disk, I might be using prefessional instead of home so i'm going to try and aquire a copy of home and try that, if that doesn't work i'm not really sure what to do. |
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Post by jamie2k7 on Oct 22, 2007 7:32:05 GMT -5
If you have an external hard drive I'd recommend copying all your files over before you anything cos you're gonna risk losing them.
If you want the XP disc to get the PC working then you're going to have to re format the partition, which means wiping everything on the hard drive.
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Post by animan on Oct 22, 2007 9:39:49 GMT -5
that happened to mine its usually i sign that the hard drive is going. have you had the blue screen of death by any chance.
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Post by ericbischoff on Oct 22, 2007 10:07:27 GMT -5
It has happen to my pc in few weeks ago, I end up go to PC World, because I won't take my own risk to go further on my pc and it could end up f*ck up. So PC World have special thing to sort it out. It cost me £29.99, But its better than put my pc in more risk.  |
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Post by finidigeorge on Oct 22, 2007 12:43:40 GMT -5
I've had that about 3 or 4 times on my laptop each time I've had to get a new hard-drive. I'm dreading the day it happend on this computer.  |
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Post by fearthegore on Oct 22, 2007 13:04:01 GMT -5
Happened to mine and I ended up having to buy a new one. If you can actually get to your desktop on safe mode try doing a system restore. It let me do that about 5 times until it buggered up completely. So if you can do that my advice would be to back everything important up ASAP before the computer just dies, then you can either get a new hard drive (if the hard drive is the issue, but in my case I believe the CPU became faulty) or a new computer.
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Post by ThrowinUpTheX on Oct 22, 2007 19:21:49 GMT -5
This happened before when we got a virus on the computer, uncle sorted it though.
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Post by Wonderben : Ricky Hatton on Oct 23, 2007 3:07:40 GMT -5
Cheers for the help guys
I managed to boot the XP disk by removing my 2 hardrives and once it loaded i put them back in. In the end i managed to get onto my desktop and run a virus scanner and it found the kernel32 virus and deleted it so that hopefully should be that.
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