windows xp sp2 problom

[KSoD]

Ahh yes. Now it is all starting to come back to me....

forgetful at my old age.

 

[carnageX]

Ahh yes. Now it is all starting to come back to me....

forgetful at my old age.

Its ok Mak... gotta let us youngins know more than the oldies some of the time, right?

 

[Lexluethar]

Carnage is right. Just depends, but toshiba does the same thing. Where if you boot from the recovery CD it starts to go straight into recovery mode to wipe the hard drive and reinstall NOT JUST the OS, but the bloatwear and software that originally came w/ the laptop.

Get your hands on a copy of the same OS (home or professional) then do a repair install. Some installs you cannot do a repair install on. I've seen a few laptops where you follow the same exact steps going through Windows setup and you get the to point where you press R on the partition you want to repair and there is no R to press.

 

[Belzybub]

I Have an issue with my operating system windows xp sp2 i get this message everytime windows starts

Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

and i have an OEM copy of windows and cant do a repair installation
anybody have any ideas?

sp3 is nice