repair xp home

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bbx

the xp home machine had the vundo virus and appeared to be cleaned and fixed
one account, an adm acct, would not come up, it just hung at loading
settings, other adm
accts came up ok, the one not coming up is the important one that we need
i started a windows repair, from the install cd, it had gone through the
first phase, did a reboot
and was about 10 min into the expected 40 min finish and crashed.
when letting it try to reboot normal, it returns that there is no
system32/config/system, and
if i try to start the repair again from the install cd it doesn't find the
existing xp home install that hopefully should be there and was there the
first time i started the repair. it just shows an ntfs partition, so
whatever file or files it looks for to determine that there is an existing
install, evidently are not there, somehow they got lost during the first
repair?
i booted into repair console and can see the 'system' file, note it has no
extension. there is a system.sav that is the same size as system of course i
can't be sure but
it looks like windows is all there from the recovery console.
am currently running a chkdsk /r that is taking quite a while.
any ideas where i'm at with this? and hopefully not screwed
bob
 
B

bbx

thanks for the reply, see answers in line, also been looking at kb 307545,
to get past the corrupt 'system' file, its a little complicated but appears
to have a way to at least be able to boot back up, any experience with that?
Randem said:
Several Questions:

1 - Does your partition report that it is RAW format instead of NTFS
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i'm pretty sure ntsf, been running a chkdsk /r thats taking over an hour,
its on its 4th pass and don't want to disturb that till it finishes, so till
then won't be able to restart install to see for sure, but it sees the c
drive and an hp recovery partition
2 - How big is your hard disk and how much data is on it. 100 gb about 50% used

3 - Can you remove the HD and attach it to another computer via USB or as
a slave
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probably, my guess its a master now, just change the jumpers to slave before
attaching to other pc?
 
B

bbx

the chkdsk finished and the partition with the win xp home is definitely
ntfs.
from the kb307545 i checked the window/repair folder and there is no restore
points in there that i could go back to however in the current config folder
all the relevant files, system, software, sam, etc. have a .bak version but
they are all the same size as the non back versions
 
R

Randem

I do have load of experience with this. After you ran the chkdsk /r what
happened then what did it state. I would have suggested a chkdsk /f instead
of a chkdsk /r for it would have been faster and told you a bit more sooner.

There are a few possible problem you have:

1 - HD going bad. place in another computer or in a USB external enclosure
and copy off all the data you can before it fails. Get new HD.

2 - File System corrupted. This is an easy fix with chkdsk /f. You never
mentioned if you were able to boot after the chkdsk /f


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Randem

Chdsk /r is very much slower if it attempts to save data from damaged
sectors. It does do what chkdsk /f does but if you do not attempt to read
the bad sectors a number of times attempting to save the data it goes much
quicker. Since you really want to diagnose what the problem could be the
faster solution would be better. Only if there are problems should you run
with the /r option.

Attempt a repair of the installation then if that fails copy your data from
the drive then do a new install, if the drive is indeed good.

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Mike

bbx said:
the xp home machine had the vundo virus and appeared to be cleaned and
fixed
one account, an adm acct, would not come up, it just hung at loading
settings, other adm
accts came up ok, the one not coming up is the important one that we need
i started a windows repair, from the install cd, it had gone through the
first phase, did a reboot
and was about 10 min into the expected 40 min finish and crashed.
when letting it try to reboot normal, it returns that there is no
system32/config/system, and
if i try to start the repair again from the install cd it doesn't find the
existing xp home install that hopefully should be there and was there the
first time i started the repair. it just shows an ntfs partition, so
whatever file or files it looks for to determine that there is an existing
install, evidently are not there, somehow they got lost during the first
repair?
i booted into repair console and can see the 'system' file, note it has no
extension. there is a system.sav that is the same size as system of course
i can't be sure but
it looks like windows is all there from the recovery console.
am currently running a chkdsk /r that is taking quite a while.
any ideas where i'm at with this? and hopefully not screwed
bob
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Have you tried this?
http://www.ubcd4win.com/
I've had pretty good luck in cleaning crap off of computers with this.
 

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