I am so incredibly frustrated.
New here obviously.
For some reason when I went to install my new Seagate HD (have a separate boot drive)
and my PC froze when loading their install cd.
After several tries, I resign myself to skipping the wizard at this point and doing the job in Windows.
At bootup I received an error message when trying to get to windows after POST:
"Winows failed to load, C:\system32\config\system is missing or corrupt".
WTH happened?
Tried to use repair option with XP cd, but that just took me into DOS and I'm not familiar with the switches to know what to do next.
I've installed XP several times before, however, it didn't require a reformat.
XP couldn't find my OS on the boot drive.
So I reinstalled XP this time with a fresh installation.
Question is: what happened to that file that it was missing or corrupted and why?
How do I overcome this should it happen again so I don't have to do another XP installation requiring a reformat of my boot drive?
New here obviously.
For some reason when I went to install my new Seagate HD (have a separate boot drive)
and my PC froze when loading their install cd.
After several tries, I resign myself to skipping the wizard at this point and doing the job in Windows.
At bootup I received an error message when trying to get to windows after POST:
"Winows failed to load, C:\system32\config\system is missing or corrupt".
WTH happened?
Tried to use repair option with XP cd, but that just took me into DOS and I'm not familiar with the switches to know what to do next.
I've installed XP several times before, however, it didn't require a reformat.
XP couldn't find my OS on the boot drive.
So I reinstalled XP this time with a fresh installation.
Question is: what happened to that file that it was missing or corrupted and why?
How do I overcome this should it happen again so I don't have to do another XP installation requiring a reformat of my boot drive?