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    Please help me!!! Before I explode!!!

    I was merrily ripping a new CD to my HD this afternoon and it all went as expected.
    Then I started listening to said CD, via MP3 format, only for my PC to lock up.
    As this has happened before, I waited a little while, to no avail so I pushed the reset button.

    As I waited for the PC to reboot, an error message flashed up;
    Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
    'Oh great' I thought.
    So I went along to support.microsoft.com and had a butchers at this.
    I followed step one (I wish DOSkey was installed!) and finished with exiting the console.
    As I waited for the reboot to start section two, the device listing screen flashed past and then a blank screen appeared.
    'Bugger' I thought! The PC then went back the initial screen and then on to device listing and blank, ad nauseum.

    So I stuck the XP pro disc and though about doing a repair install (does that exist?) and see what happened.
    Whilst this was happening, many files didn't copy, around 50, mostly .dlls and .infs.
    So I rebooted, the PC gets to the XP loading logo and resets itself, over and over.


    I am totally stuck with what to do now.

    Can anyone help out?? If you hadn't guessed, I'm running XP pro!
    Cheers.
    [XP2500-M @ 200x11] [2X512MB Crucial PC2700] [MSI K7N2 Delta ISLR] [160GB 8MB Samsung SP1614N] [160GB 8MB Maxtor DiamondMax9] [Megaworks 250Ds] [GeforceFX 5900] [Viewsonic VP171s]


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    When things like this happen I usually format re-install. Would be handy if you had another comp to grab your data off the boot drive.

    Rule of thumb, try and keep your boot drive partitioned into 2 and have C: as say 20-30Gig and data on the other. Reloading XP is a simple procedure then!

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    The partition is exactly what i have and the data grab/reinstall is exactly what I have done!

    Cheers!
    [XP2500-M @ 200x11] [2X512MB Crucial PC2700] [MSI K7N2 Delta ISLR] [160GB 8MB Samsung SP1614N] [160GB 8MB Maxtor DiamondMax9] [Megaworks 250Ds] [GeforceFX 5900] [Viewsonic VP171s]


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    Did you run scan disk? I usualy just stick the dive in my second rig and repare the files....

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      • CPU:
      • Mac Pro 2.8 GHz (8-cores) / iMac 2.8GHz C2D Extreme Edition / MacBook Pro 15" 2.33 & 13.3" 2.26 GHz
      • Memory:
      • 2GB DDR2 kits on all systems / FB ECC RAM in Mac Pro
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      • 320GB + 3x 1TB, Mac Pro / 500 GB, iMac / 2x 1TB & 2x 2TB WD My Book Studio II, via FW800 to Mac Pro
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      • 2mbps ADSL (Mac Pro) / 512kbps WiMax (Wifi/MacBook Pro)
    So..wait, you're saying that it's doing this after a fresh install? Sorry, not had any food to eat so brain ain't working

    P.S. Myth, I love the little alien dude you got in yer sig

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