lost system32 ?

[IOU]

It say windows cant find c:windowssystemwin32......................<BR><BR><BR>SHut down when explorer wouldnt respond and i got this .<BR>:/

[danny16866]

what os do you use?.........does it give you that message when you boot up?

[danny16866]

i dont even have a win32 file in my c:windowssystem folder

[IOU]

Ill give the whole thing right away <BR><BR>Xp home and yes on boot up

[danny16866]

does it boot at all?...........as in does it get to the desktop?

[IOU]

This is what is says<BR><BR><BR>Winblows could not start cause the following file is missing<BR>windowssystem32configsystem<BR><BR>You can fix this by starting windows setup with origonal cd and select r to repair .<BR><BR>then ?<BR><BR><BR>Well ur guess is a good as mine . <BR>winblows cant see the HDs(raid aray stripped ) . Well not correctly<BR>Cause it see the other drives wih xxgig used and xxgig free . But c: it see it as 70 gig all free <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>All my data and work for the beast was on the hd ( dont worry im kickin myself now)

[danny16866]

so did you try a repair?.......<BR><BR>also......get on msn........i have .net passport thing......i forgot about it lol...i have your s/n so ill see you when you get on

[IOU]

To repair it brings you to dos prompt<BR><BR>with simple commands like <BR><BR>fixboot<BR>fixmbr*<BR>copy<BR>etc.<BR><BR>* this i have tried

[Dude]

Try this, sounds like you ended up in the recovery console.<BR>Repair XP Installation without Clean Install:<BR><BR><BR><BR>Configure your computer BIOS to start from the CD-ROM drive at bootup.<BR><BR>Insert your Windows XP compact disc (CD) into your CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer. <BR><BR>(You can also boot with a Windows 98/Me Startup disk with CD support and run WINNT.EXE in the I386 folder on the CD) <BR><BR>When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message is displayed on your screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD. <BR><BR>When you see the following message displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER: <BR><BR>To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER. <BR><BR>At this point an option to press R to enter the Recovery Console is displayed. Do not select this option. <BR><BR>On the Windows XP Licensing Agreement screen, press F8 to agree to the license agreement. <BR><BR>Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the box, and then press the R key to repair Windows XP. <BR><BR>Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.<BR><BR>This will repair XP and put everything back to as it first was. You will have to reinstall any Hotfixes and OS updates including SP1 and DX9, plus retweak most (but not all) things all over again.<BR><BR>The advanage here is that you will not have to spend hours reinstallindg all your programs again, as well as setting them up...................<BR>

[danny16866]

we already fixed over MSN messenger...........he was gettin some wierd disk read error.............so i got him to ru chkdsk /r and that fixed everything

[Dude]

OK, cool.