Doggone if those computers never warn you of impending failure!
I went to boot up my always-faithful (until today) laptop, a Toshiba with XP Home SP2 (I think it's up to SP2 now...), and it gave me the message about missing or corrupt file-
"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 using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair."
I booted the Toshiba System Restore CD-ROM, which started with "Windows 98" (!), and gave me a warning that we were about to completely wipe the disk and start over. Not the desired effect.
So I then booted to a generic Win XP Home disk, and was able to get into the "recovery console," and it is clear that the hard drive is still operational, as I can browse the disk's directories.
So I suspect I may be able to manually do a restore-point. Or something?
Ideas / suggestions? (and no thanks, the Mac thing is not an immediate answer).
I went to boot up my always-faithful (until today) laptop, a Toshiba with XP Home SP2 (I think it's up to SP2 now...), and it gave me the message about missing or corrupt file-
"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 using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair."
I booted the Toshiba System Restore CD-ROM, which started with "Windows 98" (!), and gave me a warning that we were about to completely wipe the disk and start over. Not the desired effect.
So I then booted to a generic Win XP Home disk, and was able to get into the "recovery console," and it is clear that the hard drive is still operational, as I can browse the disk's directories.
So I suspect I may be able to manually do a restore-point. Or something?
Ideas / suggestions? (and no thanks, the Mac thing is not an immediate answer).