System32 Missing or Corrupt

Krellor

Krellor

Krellor

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Hey all
im in serious trouble here atm my pc's rebooted and is giving me a Systems32\config is missing or corrupt error. Now ive spoken to sum people about it and they say i have to format the hard-drive which tbh i really dnt wanna do cause i have World of Warcraft and Aion (Open Beta Download). so does any1 have any idea of another way of fixing this without formatting the hard-drive ?

Thanks for any advice ya cant give
Krellor

(Sry i think i posted this in the wrong thread before i didn't mean too :()
 
hmm.. I assume you try to boot and when it tries to load windows it throws up this error message..

first order of business is to back up any critical files if you can.

There's no reason you couldnt then try a repair install on windows from your installation media/diagnostic partition. That should sort out problematic system files and allow you to keep your own data.
 
yeah My pc just does the same Circle atm Reboot -> Error -> Reboot -> Error and so on im not very good with computers so... i know how to enter the windows recovery console but ive looked it up on the net and its all over my head and i just really dnt know what 2 do atm :(.
 
Go to the recovery console, when you get the black screen and the flashing cursor (DOS type prompt) type fixmbr and hit enter, this will fix the master boot record, also try running fixboot c: (providing your boot drive is the boot drive). If you want to check out the commands type help or ? (I can't remember which one) to get a full list of them
 
Pull the hdd out and connect to second pc and copy the config hive file from the repair folder into the system32 folder (rename the existing config. to config.old) run a check disk on it then if all is ok put it back into the original pc and let her boot up. Should fix that error at least.
 
Thanks for ya advice ive spoken to the tech guy where i work and he told me to get "Seagate" diagnostic program which i did and ive just scanned my hard-drive. I've done the 4 diagnostic tests:

1) Short Drive Self Test - Fail

2) Long Drive Self Test - Fail

3) Short Generic - Pass

4) Long Generic - Fail

The hard-drive i have is a Western Digital WCD WD3200AAKS-00B3A0. Having failed 3 of the 4 basic tests is it worth carrying on with the recovery / formatting the hard-drive? Also this is the 3rd different hard-drive i have had this happen too with the exact same problem...
Many Thanks
Krellor
 
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