[dba-Tech] Booting Problem

You might check out spinrite (www.grc.com) in case it's a disk problem at
root. It's solved a lot of problems for me over the years.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin at
Beach Access Software
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 12:52 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Booting Problem

My 10 y.o.'s machine won't boot up.  It gets to a certain point in the
process and then says C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM is missing or
corrupt.  
 
Can't boot in safe mode.  Recovery console gets me to the C:\ prompt, but I
can't do a DIR or change directories.  
 
I can reinstall XP but we'll lose everything on the HD.
 
Any ideas on how to recover at least to the point where he could back up a
few things?
 
He's now figured out why I have multiple back ups of my stuff.  :o)
 
TIA
 
Rocky
 
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