Hi
My Dell PC running XP home wasn’t booting and was giving the error message that the above file was corrupt or unable to be found. In response to help I ran CHKDSK in the recovery console and was able to work through more steps from KB article 307545. I have now copied and deleted the system32 files as told.
Now the final part tells me to copy (this is still part 1 of the fix)
c:\windows\repair\system to c:\windows\system32\config\system I am told the file cannot be found and when I search the repair directory I only find a system.bak file – so, I thought, copy that and see what happens…
The PC now starts and gives me the option to start in safe mode(as told to do in part 2 of the fix) but the PC then constantly cycles giving the option to start(and all it does is constantly reboot) and will not launch windows in any mode.
Did I copy the incorrect file?
Is there something else I can do?
I would really appreciate some help on this!!
Many thanks