Please Help

[It_The_Cow]

Upon Starting Windows 2000, I get a

"could not start because the following is either missing or corrupt: \winnt\system32\config\system"

I've tried repair in setup already. It keeps telling me I need Emergency Installation disks. I've also tried the console method, but I don't know what I need to do. Please help. Any input is appreciated

[It_The_Cow]

Update

Now I've gotten past that problem. Now my computer restarts right after it has finished starting up (Windows logo with blue bar at bottom)

[RED Hot Machine]

I had your first error and found the only way to get working again was to reinstall.

[turd]

1st your ERD is easy to create, takes about 1 min and would fix this for u, in the future just run ntbackup and follow inst, i would think that if u got this error from an OC that u backed down and tried to reboot,

here from your RC cmd try this (replace with back)

cd system32\config

ren system system.old

ren system.alt systemalt.old

cd \winnt\repair\regback
copy system \winnt\system32\config\*.*

Exit



or


if u are running NTFS you can try to clear out your hive, hope that is the problem and get back

from the RC cmd:

cd \winnt\system32\config

rename system system.org

copy system.org system

Exit




Sorry ,all that for the config error did not see second post, before posted this

[It_The_Cow]

Originally posted by turd
1st your ERD is easy to create, takes about 1 min and would fix this for u, in the future just run ntbackup and follow inst, i would think that if u got this error from an OC that u backed down and tried to reboot,

here from your RC cmd try this (replace with back)

cd system32\config

ren system system.old

ren system.alt systemalt.old

cd \winnt\repair\regback
copy system \winnt\system32\config\*.*

Exit



or


if u are running NTFS you can try to clear out your hive, hope that is the problem and get back

from the RC cmd:

cd \winnt\system32\config

rename system system.org

copy system.org system

Exit




Sorry ,all that for the config error did not see second post, before posted this Awww... Now you tell me this :p I'm guessing it was a registry error or a general corruption of something. I went ahead and reinstalled the files, so all is better.

Now It_The_Cow, what did we learn today? ALWAYS HAVE ERD's