Problem with booting XP.

Windows XP >> Problem with booting XP. Hi all

I had Win ME on my system until I upgraded it to XP.
Obviously this is a big improvement but when I boot XP, I
get the same error twice before being able to start it up
properly. The error is something like
system32/config/system is damaged - it also says to use
the Windows Setup disk to repair the file by
pressing 'r' at the first screen.

I have figured out these are instructions from the old ME
system - if I reboot with the old ME disk, the 'r' is
for 'recover' which I obviously don't want to do unless I
want to take a step back in time.

My XP disk doesn't offer an 'r' option at the first or
any other screen.

Hence why I think there is somethign in my booting up
sequence pointing to an ME file.

Any thoughts ?

Ta
Neil

Windows XP478

Windows XP >> Problem with booting XP. Hi Neil,

You have a corrupted registry, see this link:

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry [Q307545]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307545

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Neil" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> I had Win ME on my system until I upgraded it to XP.
> Obviously this is a big improvement but when I boot XP, I
> get the same error twice before being able to start it up
> properly. The error is something like
> system32/config/system is damaged - it also says to use
> the Windows Setup disk to repair the file by
> pressing 'r' at the first screen.
>
> I have figured out these are instructions from the old ME
> system - if I reboot with the old ME disk, the 'r' is
> for 'recover' which I obviously don't want to do unless I
> want to take a step back in time.
>
> My XP disk doesn't offer an 'r' option at the first or
> any other screen.
>
> Hence why I think there is somethign in my booting up
> sequence pointing to an ME file.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> Ta
> Neil
>

Windows XP >> Problem with booting XP. "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Neil,
>
> You have a corrupted registry, see this link:
>
> How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry [Q307545]
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307545

I used this process recently and it worked very well, and quickly. It is
easiest if you create the text files and use the 'batch' command as
discussed in the article - lots of typing otherwise.

-pk

>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Neil" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
> news:05d501c34df8$957421b0$EMail@HideDomain.com...
> > Hi all
> >
> > I had Win ME on my system until I upgraded it to XP.
> > Obviously this is a big improvement but when I boot XP, I
> > get the same error twice before being able to start it up
> > properly. The error is something like
> > system32/config/system is damaged - it also says to use
> > the Windows Setup disk to repair the file by
> > pressing 'r' at the first screen.
> >
> > I have figured out these are instructions from the old ME
> > system - if I reboot with the old ME disk, the 'r' is
> > for 'recover' which I obviously don't want to do unless I
> > want to take a step back in time.
> >
> > My XP disk doesn't offer an 'r' option at the first or
> > any other screen.
> >
> > Hence why I think there is somethign in my booting up
> > sequence pointing to an ME file.
> >
> > Any thoughts ?
> >
> > Ta
> > Neil
> >
>
>