major windows issue

[Dataisgod]

ok some serious ****age happened on my computer.

basically my mam was trying to change the mouse last night. when she turned the computer back on nothing was working. so when i got up this morning to take a look at it, i got a mesage along these lines

windows can't find

system32/config/system, file is either corrupt or missing, i did a double take wondering how the hell this happened.

booted into windows repair and hadn't a clue what to was just about to go to a net cafe when i turned to computer on to get the exact message when all of a sudden it booted normally. anyone know what the hell is going on? i'm afraid to turn it off again?

cheers

data

[directhex]

what file system are you using, NTFS or FAT32? FAT32 is very suceptible to losing or corrupting data compared to NTFS.

run a full scandisk on the drive, see if it throws up anything wrong.

[Dataisgod]

sorry its XP SP1, NTFS

[wol]

Ive had this before, tried copying the system file from another machine over but it takes a bit performance hit.

I think the system file is something to do with the system config so is different for each machine.


Try using the recovery console to recover the files.

[Dataisgod]

ok thing is that its working fine now, so i don't know whats up, i'm not familiar with recovery console tbh, i should probably back up my documents and reformat and reinstall but i have no dvd burner and i don't fancy burning a hell of a lot of cd's