Re: windows cannot start because the following file is missing... system

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dstockton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I concur, you have a hardware failure. Usually it would be the hard
drive, but it could be memory or system board also. In any case you are
looking at a rebuild.

Thanks for the reply. Its not a hard drive failure - see below - but I
guess there could be memory problems. Or maybe that new CMOS battery I
put in wasnt very good and only lasted a few months?

After getting windows back from the first set of issues with a new CMOS
battery, I swapped the hard drives for a spare one - kept the old
master in as a slave. Ive got a cover CD version of Acronis True Image,
not the latest version obviously, and used that to clone the old drive
to the new one, and its THAT drive thats now giving me issues this time
round. That makes me think it isnt hard drive related, unless of course
I could have copied the problem from the cack drive to the new one when
I cloned it?

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