config.sys corrupt..

[James 'jlowap']

Hi there,

My MCE PC was working fine then i had a power cut and when i restarted i had
another power cut half way through the boot, now when i start the pc i get
..corrupt config.sys file.. please insert you disk and press 'r'. (or
something similar) i can really remember as it was about a week ago and
don't have it in front of me with the exact error.

any ideas?

i have not done anything yet as someone (Microsoft employee) mentioned to me
that if i do what it says on the screen it might cause more problems!?

cheers

James


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Windows 2000 Pro SP4
P4 2.6GHz 800MHz FSB
1GB DDR2 RAM
Quadro4 900XGL 6.14.10.7718
1280 x 1024 @ 85Hz

 

[James 'jlowap']

ps... those system specs at the bottom of the post are not the PC i am
talking about...

its a AMD Dual core, with a RAID 0 disk setup

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi there,

My MCE PC was working fine then i had a power cut and when i restarted i
had
another power cut half way through the boot, now when i start the pc i get
.corrupt config.sys file.. please insert you disk and press 'r'. (or
something similar) i can really remember as it was about a week ago and
don't have it in front of me with the exact error.

any ideas?

i have not done anything yet as someone (Microsoft employee) mentioned to
me
that if i do what it says on the screen it might cause more problems!?

cheers

James

The message probably references the config\system registry file, not the
config.sys file. It means that you must do a bit of registry swapping via
the recovery console, by another boot disk that allows NTFS access, or by
removing the hard disk, hosting it in another system, and doing the file
copies from there. Once that's done, the system should reboot in its
default mode (which means it will not know about any of the programs you
installed) so you run System Restore to get back to where you were.

Details are here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

HTH
-pk

 

[James 'jlowap']

Thanks for the pointers....

will give them a go soon

cheers

James