Resurrecting a crashed XP Home machine.

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***** charles

Hi all,

I decided to do some updates that M$ suggested.
After/while doing them, the computer crashed.
Now when I turn the machine on, it gives me the following:

Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt:

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows
Setup using the original setup CDROM
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.

I did this. The SYSTEM file is huge and nothing looks
even remotely like it in the g:\i386 directory where the
cd is located. I can get to the c: prompt in recovery
mode but from there I am at a loss. Any ideas on how
to fix this?

thanks for any pointers,
charles......
 
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