Re: unable to boot laptop

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Your report suggests that you did the right thing:
1. Move the current registry files elsewhere.
2. Put "sound" registry files in their place.
3. Reboot.

However, I have a problem with your file dates. Here is how it goes. I am
assuming that your machine date is set correctly to today's date.

Step 1 above: The "flawed" registry files in c:\windows\system32\config
would have a date stamp of 12 February or thereabouts.

Step 2: When you copied the "sound" registry files from c:\windows\repair
then these files would have a date stamp reflecting the date when Windows
was installed. This could have been many months ago. The registry files in
c:\Windows\system32\config, in particular the file
c:\Windows\system32\config\system should now show this old date. You can
see this while in Recovery Console mode.

Step 3: When you reboot the machine then most files in
c:\Windows\system32\config, in particular the file
c:\Windows\system32\config\system would acquire today's date, not 12
February. Why?

At some stage you will need to decide if you want to persist with your
salvage efforts or if you prefer to perform a repair installation of
Windows XP (which may or may not be successful).

Well first of all I would like to thank everyone for their time , effort and
patience . You have all been very helpful and I know it can't be easy
dealing with an amateur on a long distance basis .
I feel we gave it a real good effort but as you say it's time to save as
much data as I can and reinstall windows.
I did try the procedure again as Pegasus suggested paying attention to the
dates .
Using the repair console I deleted all 5 of system32\config files (system,
sam, etc) and copied the files from the repair disk, after which I checked
the dates .... default was 6/10/03, the other 4 were 12/26/03 ... rebooted
to the usual autochk problem then went back in to check the dates again .
Default was still 6/10/03 but the other 4 had changed to 02/12/09 .
I then deleted the files again and copied the files I saved from the restore
point .. all files were dated 01/30/09 ... rebooted and checked them again
.... default was still 01/30/09 but the rest were 02/12/09 .
Using the repair disk it doesn't seem to recognize the command "date" or
"time" which is the only way I know to check the processor clock . So I
created a new directory and when I checked it said it was created 02/12/09
10:04pm .. about an hour later I created another and guess what ... that's
right ...it said it was created 02/12/09 10:04pm .
I believe this laptop is possessed and needs to be put out of its misery ,
perhaps an exorcism will help !
Thanks again
Terry


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