Boot problem

[Guest]

I have bought my friens a second hand computer which has XP proffesional as its OS.

However it now does not boot giving the error message

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I have tried booting form the supplied disc but i am not that confident that it is a genuine windows disc as it makes no difference.

Any idea please as to what can be done.

Thanks

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Try the following article:

"How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry That Prevents Windows XP from
Starting"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307545

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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| I have bought my friens a second hand computer which has XP proffesional
as its OS.
|
| However it now does not boot giving the error message
|
| \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
|
| I have tried booting form the supplied disc but i am not that confident
that it is a genuine windows disc as it makes no difference.
|
| Any idea please as to what can be done.
|
| Thanks
|