Cannot start Windows. Missing or corrupt boot file

Everything was working great when I last had my Win XP Pro PC on the night
before. Then I turn it on this morning and logged on ... just as my desktop
icons showed, the screen went black and I get the message, "Windows cannot
start because of a missing or corrupt boot file \Windows\Sys32\Config\System"


Then it went on to read that I could try to repair it by inserting the
install disk and typing "R" at the prompt. So I did and the recovery counsel
came up, but I am lost at this point.

Can anyone please tell me what to do at this point?
Everything is on that PC that I need.

Thank you.

Nancy

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry -config-system:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q307545
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Mark L. Ferguson



"Nancy" wrote:

> Everything was working great when I last had my Win XP Pro PC on the night
> before. Then I turn it on this morning and logged on ... just as my desktop
> icons showed, the screen went black and I get the message, "Windows cannot
> start because of a missing or corrupt boot file \Windows\Sys32\Config\System"
>
>
> Then it went on to read that I could try to repair it by inserting the
> install disk and typing "R" at the prompt. So I did and the recovery counsel
> came up, but I am lost at this point.
>
> Can anyone please tell me what to do at this point?
> Everything is on that PC that I need.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Nancy