Help PC gone Pear-Shape!!!

[mysticsniper]

My mates dad's PC has gone down and he asked if I could take a look as when it boots up it has an error message "Windows\system32\config\system" is missing or corrupt. I followed the instructions from Microsoft
as follows:

md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak

delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default

copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default


I rebooted and had another error appear "boot.ini file missing. So I created a new file, the re-booted. I know have another error "a disk read error"

I re-booted once again and tried to access the recovery console, but after I hit the "press any key to boot from CD" the screen goes blank and I hear the cd boot up, but there is no Hard drive activity.

Help

 

[Steve09]

Sounds like hes been hacked the **** out of
Re-install Windows

 

[mysticsniper]

Sounds like hes been hacked the **** out of
Re-install Windows

I cannot re-install Windows, see the last paragraph

 

[A[L]C]

possibly a faulty hdd

 

[mysticsniper]

possibly a faulty hdd

was thinking that, but even so I should still be able to access the XP setup screen when booting from CD, shouldn't I