Upgrading During Repair

[Stephanie]

Hi Guys, sorry to "hijack" this thread...

Question, my XP Home is giving me errors on startup
"windows\system32\config\system" file is missing or corrupt. After
researching this, I am trying to do a Repair. However, my SONY Vaio came
with no XP Home disk. I had recently purchased a Win XP Pro disk to upgrade
anyways. My question is can I do the Repair as stated below, but using my
new XP Pro disk to upgrade it.

Hopefully this makes sense! Thanks

Steph

Thanks for your response...I intend to attempt a "Repair Install" per your
website at the first opportunity and if timely, I'll report back here...
--
Ron

In

Is a "repair" possible as discussed in this forum if as in this case
both the "system" and "system32" folders and their contents have been
deleted from the "Windows" folder?

I'm anxious to avoid reformatting the HD and reloading XP [with all
the associated updates], the other applications and most importantly,
the data...

How did you do that?
It should work, try it.
Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

--
Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com
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[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

No. You need to repair your existing Windows XP Home Edition
installation using the SONY recommended repair method. Contact
SONY support for assistance:
http://esupport.sony.com/

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| Hi Guys, sorry to "hijack" this thread...
|
| Question, my XP Home is giving me errors on startup
| "windows\system32\config\system" file is missing or corrupt. After
| researching this, I am trying to do a Repair. However, my SONY Vaio came
| with no XP Home disk. I had recently purchased a Win XP Pro disk to upgrade
| anyways. My question is can I do the Repair as stated below, but using my
| new XP Pro disk to upgrade it.
|
| Hopefully this makes sense! Thanks
|
| Steph
|
| | > Thanks for your response...I intend to attempt a "Repair Install" per your
| > website at the first opportunity and if timely, I'll report back here...
| > --
| > Ron
| >
| >
| > "Michael Stevens" wrote:
| >
| >> In | >> Ron <[email protected]> replied with a ;-)
| >> > Is a "repair" possible as discussed in this forum if as in this case
| >> > both the "system" and "system32" folders and their contents have been
| >> > deleted from the "Windows" folder?
| >> >
| >> > I'm anxious to avoid reformatting the HD and reloading XP [with all
| >> > the associated updates], the other applications and most importantly,
| >> > the data...
| >>
| >> How did you do that?
| >> It should work, try it.
| >> Repair Install
| >> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
| >>
| >> --
| >> Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
| >> (e-mail address removed)
| >> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com
| >> For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
| >> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
| >>
| >>
| >>
| >>
|
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[Stephanie]

Thank you, I will contact them