a different protection

[Robinb]

Recently I had a client that got a bad trojan that was eating away at her
system and one day she wound up turning on the computer and found a blue
screen telling her that Windows/System32/Config/System file missing or
corrupt" error.
I was able to get the data off her computer and reinstalled XP because even
after doing a repair with the xp cd, it still came up with error msgs.

After much research on what to do, I came upon this site which was offered
through one of the forums i checked out about this error msg:
http://www.schrockinnovations.com//preventsys32config4.php

which allows you to download and install a utility program that will take
all your system files and put it into another folder in windows. (this
should be done on a good working machine.)

So if you find this error and nothing seems to work other than resorting to
a full reinstall, you can try this first. Of course you will need another
computer to put it in, but you can borrow a friend's computer if needed.
It beats having to reinstall xp if you do not have to.

Alan it will not eat your computer so don't be afraid to try it. Print out
the two set of instructions- 1 for how to install, 1 for how to fix if this
ever happens to you.
I backup my computer monthly and do a weekly backup of all my important
files, but nothing is perfect and this is an easy backup of your system
files.

It will open a DOS box and all you need to do is follow the instructions.
It says note* As you run the batch file, Microsoft Antispyware, Windows
Defender, and other applications may ask you if it is ok to run the batch
file. Please click allow or run or ok to any prompts that appear. WD did
not come up for me on this computer and scream at all.

Also this utility is only for win2000 and winxp

It creates a folder in C:/Windows/ called ERDNT
Just leave it there and forget about it unless of course you run into this
particular problem.

robin

 

[Guest]

After much research on what to do, I came upon this site which was offered
through one of the forums i checked out about this error msg:
http://www.schrockinnovations.com//preventsys32config4.php

which allows you to download and install a utility program that will take
all your system files and put it into another folder in windows. (this
should be done on a good working machine.)

Thanks for this Robin.

This looks beyond my capabilities, I think. Just looking at this one
instruction (of many) for instance: "Remove your hard drive from your
computer and hook it up as a slave in another computer." Haven't a clue how
to do that, and don't even know what a 'slave' is.

I have too much on my hands already at the moment, and although this is
something I might look into later - here and now it seems too difficult to
tackle. Thanks though.

 

[Robinb]

it is not hard at all
and if you wind up with that system error you will be in worse shape then
every because you will have to go through a million steps to get windows
back without a full re install.
Your main computer HD is now the "master"
When you take it out and put it into someone else's machine there are pins
in the back of the HD that you can move to make it a master or slave. Slave
is normally a second HD or a second CD Rom Drive, etc ALL HARDWARE

When you put it in as a slave, it actually looks like a flash drive or
external HD. It shows up with another letter and shows all your folders,
even your My Document Folder and will show the Windows folder that this
utility program makes. You need to put it into another computer so you can
see this (unless of course you have an external USB HD kit like I have for
data recovery that allows it to become an external HD without putting it in
or making it a slave). Then you can copy the folder that this program
created as per their instructions and it should replace the corrupted
folder. Then you just pop it back into your computer, close the case and
restart the computer and hopefully all shoud be fine

If you found that you could not replace xp because you were still getting
this error msg, you could try their advice and once you put it into another
computer replace the folder that was corrupted. and everything should work.
Hopefully this will never happen to you but at least you know it is there,
just in case.

robin

 

[Alan D]

Hopefully this will never happen to you but at least you know it is there,
just in case.

Thanks Robin. I understand the wisdom of what you're saying. I think if it
happened, though, then I'd probably decide to do a reinstall of XP. This
still looks terribly complicated to me, and it needs someone else's computer
to be involved, and whichever one of my friends might be willing to help
out, neither of us would really know what we were doing. In such incompetent
hands, there's plenty of scope for one disaster becoming two, I should
think.

But also, as I said, ... I just have too much on my plate at the moment to
be following this up. Sounds like a great asset for you, though.

 

[Guest]

Hi Alan D,

More help here, some with pictures
http://www.answers.com/How install a HD slave
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