RE: Corrupt registry? CONFIG\SYSTEM missing or corrupt
- From: Bob in Hercules <BobinHercules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:27:02 -0800
I get the same response. At 34% chkdsk /r says The volume appears to contain
one or more uncoverable problems.
"Dixonian69" wrote:
> yuo should run "chkdsk /r" not "chkdsk /p". no qoutes
>
> "P" swithch does not repair errors.
>
> type: chdsk /? for available switches
>
> --
> 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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