Problems Repairing

[Bill Schmitt]

I'm having difficulty repairing an XP Home machine with
NTFS. On boot, I'm told that the System file is corrupt.
Booting from the CD and choosing repair, I get a prompt
to choose the XP directory. There's only one, which I
selct. After that, nothing happens. If I try again and
choose Install, the systems proceeds to installation, and
then the message appears on the screen that it is
searching for existing Windows installations. After that,
nothing happens. If I can get through to the OS, I have a
system level back from about a month ago that can get me
most of where I need to go, but I can't get that far. Can
anyone suggest how I can get Windows back to the point
where I can sed the drive?

 

[Malke]

I'm having difficulty repairing an XP Home machine with
NTFS. On boot, I'm told that the System file is corrupt.
Booting from the CD and choosing repair, I get a prompt
to choose the XP directory. There's only one, which I
selct. After that, nothing happens. If I try again and
choose Install, the systems proceeds to installation, and
then the message appears on the screen that it is
searching for existing Windows installations. After that,
nothing happens. If I can get through to the OS, I have a
system level back from about a month ago that can get me
most of where I need to go, but I can't get that far. Can
anyone suggest how I can get Windows back to the point
where I can sed the drive?

It sounds like whatever is wrong with your operating system installation
is too great for a Repair Install. If that is the case, you need to
format the drive and do a clean install and restore your data from
backup. If you neglected to back up your data and need it, slave the
drive in a working computer and copy the data files over for burning
onto CD-R. Then put the sick drive back in the original box and clean
install.

HTH,

Malke