Hi,

I came to my PC this morning and was faced with this error message on boot "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM". So i went down the NTDLR fix route, with no joy, I've tried a lot of other things to try and get up-and-running again, all with no joy. In my BIOS, however, my secondary IDE Slave/Master shows as NONE where is WOULD normally list my 2 hard-drives. Both drives are less than 6 months old so i think it shouldn't be them.

My Specs are as follows:

Hard-drives: 2 x 250 Seagate SATA
Motherboard: ASUS P5NE SLi
Processor: Intel Core Duo 6400
Memory: 2 x 1 Gig
GFX Card: NVIDIA Ge-Force 8800 GTX
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2

Another thing to note is my MONITOR won't come on, for the first few hours i was at a loss till i realised i could try the HDMI cable plugged into the back of my TV from my gfx card and it worked. I hope this sheds some light. Does ANYBODY have any ideas?

Regards

Rizla
The message you are getting is telling you that the registry has become corrupted. There are ways to fix it.
Go here for instructions : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

As far as your Monitor and hard drive issue....did you have a power outage or surge? If you did, that could explain all of the problems. Not saying that is the problem, but I have had that happen to me.

And what is connected to your primary IDE connection?good reply by previous post. U could also try to fix the problem using your XP Win install CD. Simply insert the XP CD like if u were going to reinstall, but do not reformat. Follow the steps u will come to a step that will state fix install XP partition. Follow the instructions and it will fix the reg. Good luck. Quote from: lsutiger on April 27, 2008, 05:01:50 PM

The message you are getting is telling you that the registry has become corrupted. There are ways to fix it.
Go here for instructions : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

And what is connected to your primary IDE connection?

Follow the steps u will come to a step that will state fix install XP partition. Follow the instructions and it will fix the reg. Good luck.

Unplug the secind SATA drive and re-boot a few times...does this produce any good results ? ?
Also did you attempt to install another OS on the 2nd SATA drive ? ?

If not insert your XP CD and boot to the Recovery Console with the 2nd SATA still dis-connected and at the prompt type in fixboot and hit Enter.
Re-boot and see if this fixes it...
If not repeat the above process except this time at the prompt type fixmbr and hit Enter and re-boot.

If neither of these work you're looking at a Repair install of XP .....post back for details.....