Re: Recovery of corrupt WinXP System file on IBM A31p

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From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:08:30 +0100

Hi

If you have a 'Recovery' disk from your PC supplier, you can access the
Recovery Console with a set of floppy disks:

"Windows XP Home Edition Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install"
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8fe6868-6e4f-471c-b455-bd5afee126d8&displaylang=en

"Windows XP Professional Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F 

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Will Denny
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"Julie Tobatias" <tobatonia@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| How do I press "r" to recover from a corrupt Windows XP file?
|
| a) Given the IBM A31p ThinkPad dreaded black screen of death:
|    Windows could not start because the following file
|    is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
|    You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows
|    Setup Utility usnig the original Setup CD-ROM.
|    Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair:
|
| b) And given I just received the two IBM recovery disks
|    (and also given somewhere on my hard drive is a recovery
|     windows XP I think). And given I don't have any pristine
|    (i.e., non IBM-supplied) Windows XP Professional CDROM.
|    And given all I want to do is press 'r' at the right time.
|
| c) How can I follow the instructions?
|    That is, at which point do I press "r" to recover the one
|    missing or corrupt file?
|
|    1. When I try to use the IBM recovery disks, they try to
|       reformat and wipe out the whole system (all I need is the
|       one corrupt file).
|
|    2. If there is a Windows XP recover lurking on the hard
|       drive of the IBM A31p laptop (if it was there originally,
|       it's still there, somewhere, as I've never reformatted),
|       then how to I access that on-disk WindowsXP to press the
|       "r" button to recover the missing file?
|
|    3. Is there some other way to recover the one missing file?
|
| Please help me as I'm dead in the water,
|
| Julie
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