trouble with XP repair

[James Watson]

Hello,

My XP box crashed and, on reboot, complained of missing or corrupted
\windows\system32\config\system.

I tried a recovery, no luck.

I booted the XP CDROM and used the Repair Console. Eventually I discovered
that ...\config was in bad shape: I could CD in, but got an enumeration
error. I copied 'system' from the second-to-last repair point in to the
newly created ...\config and rebooted.

It went through a chkdsk, fixed a bunch of errors but then refused to boot
(repeatedly).

I now try to do a Repair Console from the CDROM and get "enter Adminstrator
password" ... my named account is the only account on there, has a password
I know, and has administrator privileges. Regardless, the system doesn't
recognize that password.

I tried booting the XP CDROM and going to XP Install, but I don't have an
option there to do a Repair Install.

Am hopeful someone has some useful suggestions about where to go next.

Thanks!

James

 

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I now try to do a Repair Console from the CDROM and get "enter Adminstrator

password" ... my named account is the only account on there, has a
password I know, and has administrator privileges. Regardless, the system
doesn't recognize that password.

First try leaving the password blank in Recovery Console. Your user account
password is not what you would use for the recovery console password, so
try leaving it blank. I had this problem before and once I got things
operating, I used a registry tweak to allow me to bypass the recovery
console password entirely.

I tried booting the XP CDROM and going to XP Install, but I don't have an
option there to do a Repair Install.

You have to have the cd listed as the first boot option in the bios boot
priority, then with the cd in the drive, restart so you are truly booting
from that disk, the system can't already be running when you put the cd in.
then you should have an option to perform a repair install..it may be called
an in-place upgrade, or just an upgrade.

 

[Abraxas]

Hello,

My XP box crashed and, on reboot, complained of missing or corrupted
\windows\system32\config\system.

I tried a recovery, no luck.

I booted the XP CDROM and used the Repair Console. Eventually
discovered
that ...\config was in bad shape: I could CD in, but got an enumeratio

error. I copied 'system' from the second-to-last repair point in t
the
newly created ...\config and rebooted.

It went through a chkdsk, fixed a bunch of errors but then refused t
boot
(repeatedly).

I now try to do a Repair Console from the CDROM and get "ente
Adminstrator
password" ... my named account is the only account on there, has
password
I know, and has administrator privileges. Regardless, the syste
doesn't
recognize that password.

I tried booting the XP CDROM and going to XP Install, but I don't hav
an
option there to do a Repair Install.

Am hopeful someone has some useful suggestions about where to go next.

Thanks!

James

If the repair option is not present, it is due to the registry bein
too corrupt to effect a repair installation.

Try following these steps, similar to those you have alread
performed:
'How To Recover From A Corrupted Registry That Prevents XP Fro
Starting' (http://tinyurl.com/7ptt