im starting up my cpu now and it keeps saying a system file is corrupt or missing??????

/windows/system32/config/system

says that files corrupt...and that i should use the recovery console to fix it ...how do i go about fixing it? put in the cd press R when i get to it select the windows installation then what????

anyone???

Not sure why it's using / instead of \ to give you the error, but what you can do is try the emergency repair (first to go repair, then select emergency repair instead of console). Make sure that the CD you use is slipstreamed to the version of Windows you are currently using. Ask it to do a Fast Repair (I believe that's it), and let it run through all its tests. What it does at one point is check the files it has against core Windows files on your installation. You have the option of replacing files that it flags as possible problems. In this case, just replace/fix the file the error message says you are missing.

Regards,

zakaluka2.

i called pctorque tech support and they were like how i'd have to get a real copy of xp and use that to repair cuz the cd i got with the lappy is only a recovery cd n shi...man its so gay i lost everything just formated everything and installed everything all over again

i dont know what they are talking about but that cd is just a NORMAL OEM copy of windows xp

whenever i got into it after boot
and hit "R" to get into the repair
it tells me to choose which O/S i wanted to repair
i pick "1" cuz its something like "1 Windows XP" blah blah

when i hit enter

it doesn't do anything its just a command prompt saying

c:\windows>

nothing else happened

That is the recovery console, and basically useless. What often works is simply reinstalling Windows over the old copy. It will keep most of your settings and return the OS to a stable state. However, since you erased all your data, the only thing left to do is use their CD to reinstall windows.

Regards,

zakaluka2.

i've already done that now
but just asking just incase a 'next time'

if i do reinstall the o/s over it again will i lose all my stuff? orr what?

i don't think so. just maybe windows settings.

btw i have tested cs extensively. i suck at it, but it doesn't crash. temps get up to 65 c when gaming.

really sucks
lost everything

did you install anything recently that could have messed up the system?

dont think so nope
was on a trip to NY
playin need for speed
got a cd from one of the guys there
was usin media player to cpy the cd to my hd the tracks (he mixes songs)

after that went out..came back..turn it on....it freezes...turn it off from the power button..on again..."corrupt or missing file'

i use itunes to copy songs. no problems with that.

Here's one solution by means of example:

My #4 computer, the Sager 8500, was finicky and blue screened when it felt like it, sometimes resulting in files being corrupted. One time, "ntfs.sys" was corrupted. If you want to talk about a critical situation, that's it. I could not boot to Windows, nor could I run setup and format the disk to reinstall Windows (because it would attempt to read the disk beforehand and blue screen because it needed "ntfs.sys"). By the way, "ntfs.sys" is the system file that handles the Windows NT File System on the HDD.

I went out and bought my HDD enclosure and put my 8500's HDD in it and plugged the thing to my server. I then copied "ntfs.sys" from my WinXP setup CD to the correct location on the laptop's HDD, replacing the corrupted file. I stuck the HDD back in the laptop and the problem was solved.

Perhaps you could have drawn on this solution?