Comments on: Error message on startup “Windows\System32\config\system” file missing or corrupt

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:06:17 +0000

I’m hoping someone can help. We got the system32 config error. I wasn’t home at the time so I’m not exactly sure what happened. I know the CD was run. The problem is that our local disk is now F and not C. Everything that was on the local disk C is gone. When I go into the recovery console I have both F and C to choose from. Even though I select C, whenever the system restarts I only have the F drive. Like I said, I am not sure what happened when the CD was run to fix the problem initially but I can’t figure out why we have an F drive and no C drive, but in the recovery console we have them both. Has anyone seen this before? There are only a few files in my documents that were on the C drive that I really care about. Not much was stored on the machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: adil

adil — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:47:28 +0000

i followed the procedure but after i typed the command
“copy %windir%\Repair\system %windir%\System32\Config”
it says access denied
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By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:09:34 +0000

Thanks for this tip. Just what I needed to fix a friend’s PC.

jeyaraj, make sure you replace ‘%windir%’ with the location of the Windows installation. In my case it was ‘C:\WINDOWS\’. I had to make sure that WINDOWS was all in capitals. Also, check you have the correct spaces as per the text in the blog.

Worked for me so hopefully it will for you too.

By: jeyaraj

jeyaraj — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:13:52 +0000

forget about my first comment, now i have booted from the CD and i have opened the recovery console when i type %windir%\Repair\system%windir%\System32 it says “The system cannot find the file specified” what do i do??
Please help me i really need help urgently

By: XxTreceZxX

XxTreceZxX — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:31:04 +0000

hey tnx about posting this tutorial but I dont hav the windows xp setup cd…where can I get/purchase or download it??

By: Sarfaraj Khan

Sarfaraj Khan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:38:46 +0000

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By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:26:52 +0000

btw: if you need to back the system before replacing the HD, just use directions as given in: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545

I did not have an automatic recovery console, so i just copied the system files from repair into c:\windows and that was apparently sufficient. I used freeware program Macrium Reflect to make a backup image. The image i will use to restore the system on a new HD…

Best of luck.

By: jeison

jeison — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:00:20 +0000

hey i need the disk i dont have it so i need to find the disk were can i find it?

By: munsif ali, age;39, pakistani

munsif ali, age;39, pakistani — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:51:30 +0000

hi every body,

i am munsif ali. I recently purchased omni tech pc, and got installed windows xp professional version 2002. my computer p-3, speed 650 mhz and 128 ram memory.

I have had excellent experience studying different dialogue boxes about system, self-repair, customization etc. i amso involved with it that ijust have started research studying each and every concept of computer”s integrated service. It is my hobby that i explain today’s modern computer with all peripherals attached to a person who knows local language. I am looking forward to introduce modern p-3 computers with windows xp installed in local language. so the first very basic terms are hardware, software, program, system , files, folders, booting etc, and desktop icon explainations. However my literature is in progress.

i frequently refer to system configuration utility, and learned that safe mode helps remove certain malware viruses, spyware, trojans, key loggers,adware etc, which willalso be the basic terminology, I amgonna introduce in my book.

however at the moment i do not have internet cable connection, but one day i observed increase in free space of hard disk c. My computer was showing 777 MB free space, and I had very few things stored on my document, such as 8 songs, a 70 KB text and computer literature which i installed from cd.

i used safe boot using system configuration utility from remote assistance. Later i found that free space on my hard disk had become 1 GB, i do not know , what data occupied 230 MB of space earlier, however I did not lose anything, my computer is still working perfectly.

hoping someone will explain,

munsif,
ph:09203313524436
pakistan

By: macmagoo

macmagoo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:29:38 +0000

I used the following commands to repair the config file in XP. Now when the pc reboots it asks me to select the OS from a list. The first one in the list is blank and the second one says it is Windows XP. How do I make this boot directly into windows without having to select and enter from a list.

Thanks in advance.