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Paul,
Another idea that occurred is to try hitting 'F8' just after POST, but
before booting, and at the menu, selecting to boot with the "last known
good configuration". This might restore a backup of the registry hive.
Russ Poffenberger
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>Hi Paul,
>
>Unfortunately, this is pretty serious. That file is not just an OS driver
>file, it is the registry hive file for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM, and
>copying it from another machine will be completely wrong, since it stores
>settings specific for your computer. Unless you have a registry backup, you
>may be looking at a complete OS re-install.
>
>At 04:52 PM 1/4/2005, you wrote:
>>Greetings list--
>>
>>I am about to attempt to repair a Windows XP Home installation
>>on a HP Pavilion laptop. As is so often the case, HP provides a
>>recovery disk, but not a Windows disk. (At this point I should
>>mention that my client has several Pavilions of different ages and
>>is not at all certain he can locate the correct restore disk for this
>>laptop.) The message on boot reads that a system file is either
>>corrupt or missing. The file is C:\Windows\System32\Config\System.
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