Re: missing or corrupt \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

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On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 22:34:01 -0700, cheryl_cam
<cherylcam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Barb and Gene,
Thank you for all of your suggestions and help.
I went to the Apple support page and got the instructions for undoing the
partition, and Gene, you're right about Bootcamp being expired.
I guess it's time to call my little brother for help as he's the one who
convinced me to buy this stupid laptop. He's totally MAC and I've always been
PC.
Thank you to all for trying to help, but now it's time to defer to my
brother. If I ever get this fixed, I'll be sure to post here what was done so
some other poor person doesn't get as frustrated as I have.

Cheryl

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:

I was going to look at Bootcamp to get info to help here, only to find
out that it has expired. To be explicit: I have OS X 10.4, and the beta
version of Bootcamp there has expired. According to the Apple website,
to run the release version I have to upgrade to OS X 10.5 (which is not
about to happen here just yet).

If Cheryl_cam is in my situation, she won't be able to run Bootcamp :-(

There is a problem beyond this. If she is at 10.4 and she tries to
install Windows from the CD (where she could also format the
partition), at some point she would need the Bootcamp drivers and
they'd have evaporated - but IIRC you can't even boot from the CD
without Bootcamp (even to do a repair installation).

About all the above: years ago a friend of mine used to say "That's
enough to piss off the Good Humor Man". Yeah...

BTW, I'm happy to run my Windows in a virtual machine. I've used
Parallels and VMware. They're pretty much equal, perhaps. There are
problems with some I/O in both (but not the same problems).

On 7/07/2008, Barb Bowman posted this:
it is on the Mac side. who installed XP on your MacBook Pro? I'm
assuming this was done using bootcamp. I don't know the specific
steps to format the partition once you boot into the Mac OS. Perhaps
a Mac forum would be the best place to look for help on doing this.

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/


On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:18:00 -0700, cheryl_cam
<cherylcam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Barb, can you be more specific on how to do this? Sorry, I'm not too
technical. Would bootcamp be located on the MAC side or the XP side?

"Barb Bowman" wrote:

can you format it from bootcamp?

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:00:01 -0700, cheryl_cam
<cherylcam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

These links are useless to me as I cannot get into the recovery console to
do them. I need to know how I can reformat the partition that has XP on
it so I can start with a clean slate and NOT mess up the partition with
the MAC OS

"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q307545
How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry that Prevents Windows XP from
Starting

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"cheryl_cam" <cherylcam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:67A2863A-3F29-4EB6-B396-EB1561524B36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a MacBook Pro which has a partitioned hard drive and is running
Mac OS
on one side, and Windows XP Professional on the other side.

When I try to boot up into XP, I get the following message

windows could not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Attempt to repair using WINDOWS SETUP on the original SETUP CD-ROM
select r to start repair

I tried this and got the following error

BAD_POOL_CALLER
***STOP: 0x000000C2 (0x00000043, 0xC2632000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I tried using last known good configuration, safe mode and all the other
options that are listed. NOTHING WORKS. I am at the end of my rope.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Since I can't access the hard drive
at all, I can't even re-format it and re-install the software.

I can see the hard drive on the desktop of my MAC OS, and can access it
from
there, but I don't know how to reformat it from there. Any suggestions?

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