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.


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