Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands
Posted by Robert Hallock
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 at 7:55 am in ArticlesMost of us have seen it at one time or another; perhaps on our own PC, the PC of a loved one, or
perhaps a PC at your place of employment. The system spends weeks or months operating in a
smooth fashion, taking you to the far reaches of the wide, wibbly web, and after one particularly
late evening of browsing and gaming, you shut your PC off and go to bed. Millions of people
across the globe do just this every night, but a few of us have turned our PCs on the next day not
to the standard Windows XP loading screen, but instead this dreaded error:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\\WIDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\COFIG\\SYSTEMYou can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup
using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select ‘R’ at the first screen to
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