Re: system32 error corrupt or missing

From: DieterKlausen (DieterKlausen_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:01:03 -0700

Hi, The exact screen says:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
System32\drivers\ntfs.sys
You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the
original setup CD-ROM. Select 'r' @ first screen to repair.

As I speak the CD is still spinning, but only after the same screen
appeared. I changed the BIOS to boot from CD and have tried to determine if
the memory went bad for some reason.. I have 3 sets of 256 DDR and am not
sure what has happened. The computers are identical and I built them a lttle
over 2 years ago but have not started to use them until recently. I am
unable to even reformat the little rat ***.

Thanks

"Will Denny" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Could you please post the exact error message? In the meantime, please see
> if the following article helps:
>
> Left hand column(24):
>
> http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
>
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> Will Denny
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> "DieterKlausen" <DieterKlausen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BC2FDF11-3F78-489F-B250-513CCAA2819D@microsoft.com...
> > Out of the blue my system crashed. I tried to reboot in safe mode and
> > normal
> > mode and it states that I should put in xp disk and press "r". It doesn't
> > do
> > anything except to state that there is a corrupt or missing file in
> > system32\drivers\ntfs.sys
> >
> > I moved the hard drive to another computer and it is fine, but on both
> > computers the floppy drives give me a i/o error. They both show that they
> > exist on the computer but will not read/write or format to them, making it
> > impossible to make a xp bootable floppy.
> >
> > PLEASE HELP I have been searching the web for 3 days trying to figure this
> > out.
>
>
>