lost or corrupt windows\system32\config\system

G

Guest

I've tried searching for this info, found solutions but I'm having another
problem when I try to recover.

After I press R and select which one I want to recover, I get a BSOD,
BAD_POOL_CALLER, 0x000000c2. I can't start windows to even start to fix the
bsod beacause of the 'lost or corrupt windows\system32\config\system' thing.
Am I royaly screwed now? or is there a way to get around it?
 
J

John Wunderlich

I've tried searching for this info, found solutions but I'm having
another problem when I try to recover.

After I press R and select which one I want to recover, I get a
BSOD, BAD_POOL_CALLER, 0x000000c2. I can't start windows to even
start to fix the bsod beacause of the 'lost or corrupt
windows\system32\config\system' thing. Am I royaly screwed now? or
is there a way to get around it?

You have a corrupt system registry.

Have you tried the steps contained in 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;307545>

HTH,
John
 
J

John Wunderlich

Yes, but the BSOD prevents me from opening the console, that's
what I can't get around to fix the corrupt registry

In that case it's despiration time. If I had this problem, I would
boot the machine from a Bart PE disk which would allow me to make
necessary repair changes to the hard drive. If that didn't work, I
would boot the computer using a Knoppix disk and use it to back up
all my important files before re-installing windows on the computer.

Another possibility is to remove your hard drive and insert it as a
secondary drive in another computer, make the changes (and/or back
it up), then put it back.

Bart PE:
<http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/>
Knoppix:
<http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html>

HTH,
John
 
D

digisol

Generally it means the HDD is RS, my SATA array did it some time ago,
turned out to be one drive RS
 

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