RE: Corrupt registry? CONFIG\SYSTEM missing or corrupt

yuo should run "chkdsk /r" not "chkdsk /p". no qoutes

"P" swithch does not repair errors.

type: chdsk /? for available switches

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Dennis S.
I''m from Illinois. I hope I helped you. Good Luck.


"Bob in Hercules" wrote:

> I may have messed up my home PC and wondered if any of you had any thoughts.
> I see that there have been others with this problem, but solutions I have
> found don't seem to work.
>
> Last night, I decided to sit down and fix a problem I had been investigating
> for some time. On shutdown, we were getting a program called
> WindowsFormsParkingWindow (WFPW) that was taking forever to shutdown. On
> investigation, I discovered that this WFPW, while maily used by programmers,
> can also be put onto machines by HP printer/scan products, which we have
> both. To fix, I went into msconfig utility under the Startup tab. There you
> can see the list of startup files. They can be checked and unchecked. I
> unchecked the file associated with WFPW (hph something08) and then looked at
> other files in the startup to see if they too should be unchecked. I used the
> database sysinfo.org website to see what the files pertained to. There's a
> guide there that tells you if the file is necessary, up to the user, not
> necessary or definitely not something you want in startup. I unchecked a
> couple of other startup items (like things that were loading to the startup
> tray that were accessible in other ways). i got to one that was named simply
> "1" and had a file name of "1" (without .exe or any extension.) I think I
> mistakenly interpreted this as a result of a worm (from the database on
> sysinfo.org).
>
> From that site I was taken to Symantec's site that said this file could be
> in startup as a result of a worm and was one that saved keystrokes and sent
> them out. Though at this time, I'm not entirely sure if this "1" file was
> related to the worm (since there was no .exe after it) Symantec suggested the
> following which was probably a mistake for me to do:
>
> Turn off System Restore for all disks. (This removed all restore points - I
> did hesitate before doing this, but did do it.)
> Download new virus def files
> Scan all disks.
>
> No viruses were found in the scan which took over an hour.
>
> They then suggested looking at regedit to see if the 1.exe file was in
> there. I looked, did not find it and cancelled without making any changes to
> regedit because I know that's dangerous if your not a very advanced user.
> (I'm good, nut not a pro)
>
> I rebooted the machine and it booted just fine, and faster than before. A
> utility came up, something like Configuration Utiltity, that said because I
> was effectively not loading all the items in the startup (because I had
> unchecked them) this was going to come up each time I started the machine. It
> gave an option to not have this utility come up when the machine starts up,
> but I did not check it. I figured it was safer to leave it on until I was
> sure.
>
> I successfully rebooted the machine three or four times, each time with the
> unnecessary startup items unchecked. The last time I got a message that told
> me that "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
> corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM." It told me that to fix it I could
> boot from the Windows XP startup disc and press 'r' to go into the recovery
> console.
>
> I was able to do this and get to the C:\> prompt in the recovery console. I
> researched the problem using another machine and each user forum I found
> pointed to the steps listed in Microsoft's knowledge base at
> support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307545#appliesto.webloc. (These are the same
> steps as at Kelly's Korner) When I got to the part that has you start typing
> commands at the C:\ prompt (such as the first one 'md tmp') I get a message
> that says "Access is denied". Most of the instructions had pointed to an
> Administrator password prompt appearing when I entered the Recovery console,
> but I was never prompted for that.
>
> If I type 'dir' at the C: prompt, it says "An error occurred during
> directory enumeration".
>
> We ran chkdsk \p and when it got to 34% it stopped and gave a message "The
> volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
>
> One of the forums I found had someone who said he was able to run "fixmbr"
> in the Recovery Console and that fixed his problem. I looked this up on
> Microsoft and it said "If an invalid or nonstandard partition table signature
> is detected, you will be prompted whether you want to continue. If you are
> not having problems accessing your drives, you should not continue. Writing a
> new master boot record to your system partition could damage your partition
> tables and cause your partitions to become inaccessible." I am hesitant to do
> this, because I don't want to lose what I have on the hard drive.
>
> This all started because I was trying to clean up the computer after getting
> a new DVD burner and new secondary hard drive. I thought if I removed that
> program that was causing shutdown to hang up, all would be well. Needless to
> say, I haven't finished cleaning up the computer and have no backups to C: -
> I was going to start making them today.
>
> Some suggestions have been to do a parallel install. i wonder if I could do
> this to my secondary hard drive and be able to back up and recover my files
> before doing a reinstall of windows on the original drive.
>
> Does this sound familiar to you or have I ruined my drive? <sigh>
>
> Any advice you can provide would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
> Hercules CA
.

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