XP Crash

[Shan]

XP won't load. Screen says windows\system32\config system file is corrupted.
Then goes to a screen that says to press 'r' to repair. That trys restart and
then back to the same screen. How can I get beyond that or reinstall windows
from my XP disk? I have the disk in, but won't start.

 

[Jerry]

To boot from the XP CD you must go into the BIOS and change the boot order
so that the CD is the first device then opt to do a repair install.

 

[philo]

XP won't load. Screen says windows\system32\config system file is corrupted.
Then goes to a screen that says to press 'r' to repair. That trys restart and
then back to the same screen. How can I get beyond that or reinstall windows
from my XP disk? I have the disk in, but won't start.

First thing to do is hit F8 while booting

then opt for: last good configuration

 

[Shan]

I did that. I went into the bios and put the cd first, but when it rebooted
it still did the network first an then the cd. The CMOS is also off and I
have changed the time and date several times, then save and exit, but it
keeps going back to 1999.

 

[philo]

I did that. I went into the bios and put the cd first, but when it rebooted
it still did the network first an then the cd. The CMOS is also off and I
have changed the time and date several times, then save and exit, but it
keeps going back to 1999.

The date being reset to 1999 is indicative of a dead cmos battery

 

[Shan]

Thanks philo. I will check that. How do you get a dos prompt. I had a crash a
long time ago and was able to get a dos prompt and fix it from there. I can't
seem to figure out how I did that.

 

[Shan]

I changed the battery and now the cmos is holding the correct date. I still
need to figure out how to get a dos prompt or how to reinstall windows. I
can't get the cd XP disk to load even though I changed the order to local,
then network.