- Jun 4, 2013
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I have a PC that won't boot, it tells me "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt C:\windows\system32\config\system ". So my first thought was to boot from a Windows CD and run the repair option. But when I try that it gets about half way loaded and blue screens. The blue screen error says something about a hard drive or hard drive controller.
Is there any way I could slave the hard drive to another computer and just copy the missing files? Or run a repair on it that way? I have the equipment to hook it up as an external USB drive, I just am not sure what to do with it once I get it there. It's from a non-standard PC so I can't just stick the hard drive in another box and try to boot it to see if it's really the hard drive or some other component from the PC.
I'd really like to save the hard drive if I can, it has some software on it that is difficult to manage and even transferring the license from one machine to another costs us. Thanks for any advice!
Is there any way I could slave the hard drive to another computer and just copy the missing files? Or run a repair on it that way? I have the equipment to hook it up as an external USB drive, I just am not sure what to do with it once I get it there. It's from a non-standard PC so I can't just stick the hard drive in another box and try to boot it to see if it's really the hard drive or some other component from the PC.
I'd really like to save the hard drive if I can, it has some software on it that is difficult to manage and even transferring the license from one machine to another costs us. Thanks for any advice!
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