Re: windows startup problems

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Thanks Gerry,
Yes it is the cd that came with the computer. I ran hdtune like you said
and turns up clean.

"Gerry" wrote:

toyt

Is the OEM cd one that came with the computer?

Try HD Tune. It only gives information and does not fix any
problems.

Download and run it and see what it turns up. You want HD Tune
(freeware) version 2.55 not HD Tune Pro (not Freeware) version 3.00.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Make sure you do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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toyt wrote:
my gateway laptop won't startup. i get the message:
windows cannot start because following file is missing or corrupted,

windows\system32\config\system

i did a complete reinstall with OEM cd from gateway and still get
message. now sometimes when i just hit enter it boots up normally.
other times I shut computer off manually and then restart and it will
boot up normally. but there are other times that the message will
just keep appearing and computer does boot. did I do something wrong
during installation? is there a way to fix this without having to
reinstall again.

thank you



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