Windows XP does not boot

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:02:36 -0700

Thanks, that was helpful.
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>The computer will not boot into windows XP. The error
>>message is C:\windows\system32\system corrupted or
>>missing. I managed to get the recovery console to boot
>>off the CD but could not do anything and discovered
that
>>the DVD player was assigned as drive e:, which was
>>assigned as drive d:. The CD burner, which was
assigned
>>dirve e:, was now drive f:.
>> What to do? Please help.
>>Boris
>>.
>>
>Dear Boris
>
>The reason the drive letter has change is because of the
>recovery console, when you boot into that it asigns its
>own default letters for the drives. You don't need to
>worry about that. Because the computer says a file is
>missing or courrpt doesn't always mean it is missing,
the
>boot.ini file might be pointing it into the wrong
>direction. If you know Dos commands copy the boot.ini
>file from the installation cd to replace the old one or
>you can try the emergency disk repair program on the
>installation CD
>.
>

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