[ltp] A corrupted or missing Windows config on my A21P

[Christian Nilsson]

Hi!

In my experience (working as a PC tech) this is in many cases a indication of the harddrive going bad....

in some cases a "chkdsk /F /V c:" in the recovery console can fix the problem, if not the next step is to instead of pressing "R" when booting from the CD just press enter, this will go a step further and try to find the previus windows installation, if found you will once again be presented with the option R, otherwise the only thing left will be to do a new install, just follow the steps from the CD.

Hope you get it up and running.

/Christian Nilsson


Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> On my A21P I am running Linux as my main OS (Opensuse 10.2 and 10.3) with the 
> first 10GB partition Windows XP. It is my first experience with Windows.
> Somehow booting Windows I now get the information that I have a corrupted or 
> missing Windows config. (windows\system31\config\system) No problem because 
> there seems to be a repair possibility. I booted the CD, pressed R in order 
> to do the repair and do not see any automatic repair activity. It finds the 
> C:\Windows and after entering help I get a lot of possibilities for whatever 
> action in what they seem to call "recovery console", but nothing telling me 
> how to restore the config. 
> I am more versed in Linux and this excursion in Microsoft-land comes after my 
> 90's  experiences with Windows 3.1 and 3.11. Am still fix with Dos but 
> repairing this OS is out of my reach. Even simple things like chkdsk and dir 
> give unclear answers if any. Could somebody help me? Is a reinstall the 
> better way?