Re: Corrupt registry? CONFIG\SYSTEM missing or corrupt

When using the recovery/repair console, chkdsk C: /p **IS** chkdsk C: /r

Microsoft just decided to do it differently OR the right hand didn't know
what the left hand was doing when the code was written (nothing new here).
(-:

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Richard Urban
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"Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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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