I recently had a few too many memory-intensive programs open at once on my old computer (I DO know better
) so I rebooted after it had frozen completely, a process that I have done many times without a hitch. Well, this time there was a major problem; I got the following error message during the re-boot:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
I tried the Repair option after booting with the installation disk to no avail. Nor was I successful using the Emergency Repair Disk I hade made with a floppy ages ago.
So I did the following: Instead of using the R option while rebooting from the installation disk I typed C and entered into the Recovery Console. There I renamed the above-mentioned corrupt SYSTEM file to SYSTEM.OLD, and then copied -- into the same directory -- a new SYSTEM file from C:\WINNT\REPAIR.
Long story short: it seemed to boot into windows OK. CHKDSK then ran and showed lots of orphaned files which it supposedly repaired. I had to re-install the graphics card and monitor and got everything working pretty well, albeit squirrelly. (At this point I just wanted to backup some of my critical work data and had resigned myself to probably doing a clean re-install)
Well, I couldnt back anything up to any external storage, and shortly after that nothing worked whenever I clicked anything I got a prompt to run CHKDSK. I rebooted, and got the message: ERROR LOADING OS
Not good. So I took that drive out of the computer, thinking I might be able to get the data off of it another way. I had another drive in there, which I set as the master drive, formatted and did a clean install of Windows 2000. I put the old drive back in as a slave, and this is what happens now:
1) It shows in windows explorer but thats about all. When I try to open it, I only get a prompt to format it.
2) When I run COMMAND.COM I get the following information in DOS:
C:\>DIR F:\
The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all the required drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.
C: \ >CHKDSK F:
The type of file system is RAW
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
Can anybody help me access this drive? I have design files on it need for work!
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
I tried the Repair option after booting with the installation disk to no avail. Nor was I successful using the Emergency Repair Disk I hade made with a floppy ages ago.
So I did the following: Instead of using the R option while rebooting from the installation disk I typed C and entered into the Recovery Console. There I renamed the above-mentioned corrupt SYSTEM file to SYSTEM.OLD, and then copied -- into the same directory -- a new SYSTEM file from C:\WINNT\REPAIR.
Long story short: it seemed to boot into windows OK. CHKDSK then ran and showed lots of orphaned files which it supposedly repaired. I had to re-install the graphics card and monitor and got everything working pretty well, albeit squirrelly. (At this point I just wanted to backup some of my critical work data and had resigned myself to probably doing a clean re-install)
Well, I couldnt back anything up to any external storage, and shortly after that nothing worked whenever I clicked anything I got a prompt to run CHKDSK. I rebooted, and got the message: ERROR LOADING OS
Not good. So I took that drive out of the computer, thinking I might be able to get the data off of it another way. I had another drive in there, which I set as the master drive, formatted and did a clean install of Windows 2000. I put the old drive back in as a slave, and this is what happens now:
1) It shows in windows explorer but thats about all. When I try to open it, I only get a prompt to format it.
2) When I run COMMAND.COM I get the following information in DOS:
C:\>DIR F:\
The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Please make sure that all the required drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.
C: \ >CHKDSK F:
The type of file system is RAW
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.
Can anybody help me access this drive? I have design files on it need for work!