Help Please - Windows XP - Error on Startup

[Guest]

Hi,
Hopefully someone will be able to help me?
This could be related so will start from what I did -
I cleaned out the Temp folder under Documents and Settings/Local
Settings.......

When I went to restart my PC (Running WinXP Home Edition) it came back with
the message \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM is missing or corrupted.
You can try to fix the problem by reinstalling the orignal WINDOWS XP
Installation disk and pressing 'r' at the second screen.

Tried that didn't work, also tried renaming the file and removing all the
entries, these didn't work either.

Had to reinstall Windows XP in a different partition, but unfortunately that
had nullified most of the apps I have running in the original WINDOWS.
Copied the files from the original WINDOWS to the new WINDOWS(which have
named WINDOWS1), but this still has not solved the problem of being unable to
run any of my apps such as OFFICE, NORTON, etc.

So my questions are:
1. Is there some easy way to restore \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM so as
I can boot from the original WINDOWS

2. If not, is there an easy way to establish connection to the apps on the
original WINDOWS so they will run on the new WINDOWS setup?

Any assistance would be greatly apprecaited.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please see if the following article helps:

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