Re: Failed XP-HOME installation

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:00:27 -0700

Greetings --

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents Windows XP from
Starting
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545

    But you should probably start here:

How to Troubleshoot Registry Corruption Issues
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822705

Bruce Chambers 

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"ickybill" <ickybill@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:AFDEC4C9-460D-4063-89E9-F9333EC65243@microsoft.com...
> After the files have been copied to C: and it is rebooting into the 
> GUI portion of the install I get an error that the following file is 
> corupt or missing ;windows\system32\config\system.
>
> I have fdisked and formatted(fat32) 3 different HD drives and they 
> all get the same error.  I have done a chkdsk on all of the HD's and 
> have found no bad sectors, I have run an error check on the memory 
> and am getting no errors.  I have tried loading XP Pro and still get 
> the same errors.  I've also tested the drives according to the 
> different manufacturers own utilities and nothing seems wrong.  I'm 
> stumped, please help.

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