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cannot start up windows becuase system 32?

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cannot start up windows becuase system 32?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:10 pm
by bsxiong

PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:20 pm
by Gecko
Is this the message?
Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

If so then yes you can recover the system from this.
Microsoft has an article explaining step by step how to recover from the corrupted registry
The article can be found

PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:01 pm
by o0obrian0o0
I ran into this problem recently and the harddrive ended up being no good. However these are the steps i took to recover from that error. I inserted the windows disk and ran an emergency repair then i was able to get to windows. after that i ran the Regfix tool from microsoft.