Issue with my Laptop

2008-11-08 11:18:22

#1

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6489|Escea

Ok here's my problem, my Toshiba laptop, a few years old now, was working fine the other day, but when I started it up last night it went directly to a screen saying that the following file is either missing or corrupt:

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

It thens say I can attempt to repair with a Windows setup CD that doesn't seem to have come with the laptop originally and tells me to press r to begin the repair.

No CD I use, including the recovery disk does anything and no matter what key I press besides r it goes through the Toshiba screen and straight back to this screen. There's a possibility it could be taken somewhere for repair but I'd like to see if the problem can be sorted first, though I'm guessing its probably screwed.

I generally suck with techincal stuff for comps so I have no idea what to do.

Appreciate any help

2008-11-08 11:39:30

#2

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6463|Winland

Reformat.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-11-08 11:53:53

#3

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6489|Escea

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Reformat.

How would I do that? Bearing in mind nothing so far can get past this screen

2008-11-08 12:44:01

#4

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6463|Winland

M.O.A.B wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:
Reformat.
How would I do that? Bearing in mind nothing so far can get past this screen

Download an XP CD and boot from it.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-11-08 14:11:27

#5

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6863|Seattle

Sounds like your hard drive may have errors. Did you maybe bump the computer while it was running? Or it might just be dying. How old is the hard drive?

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2008-11-08 14:23:21

#6

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

Your registry is corrupt.

Do what Freezer said, unless you've got important data, that's not backed up, and that you don't want to lose, on the HDD, then, don't do that, do this instead.

2008-11-09 06:41:39

#7

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6489|Escea

Thanks for the help guys, I'll see what I can do with it

King_County_Downy wrote:
Sounds like your hard drive may have errors. Did you maybe bump the computer while it was running? Or it might just be dying. How old is the hard drive?

Drive is maybe 3-4 years now. I sometimes move it whilst its running but never had problems like this before when I've done that.

Last edited by M.O.A.B (2008-11-09 06:43:22)

2008-11-09 08:46:20

#8

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6647|the land of bourbon

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Your registry is corrupt.

Do what Freezer said, unless you've got important data, that's not backed up, and that you don't want to lose, on the HDD, then, don't do that, do this instead.

^^^^^^ this is what you're looking for

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2008-11-09 18:12:15

#9

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

steelie34 wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Your registry is corrupt.

Do what Freezer said, unless you've got important data, that's not backed up, and that you don't want to lose, on the HDD, then, don't do that, do this instead.
^^^^^^ this is what you're looking for

I posted it - your comment is unnecessary.

Last edited by Scorpion0x17 (2008-11-09 18:12:35)

2008-11-09 22:17:18

#10

signa: ~~~~~; +50|6995|Michigan, USA

also search google for "windows hive". there are some good pages with detailed fixes.

2008-11-09 22:26:00

#11

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
steelie34 wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Your registry is corrupt.

Do what Freezer said, unless you've got important data, that's not backed up, and that you don't want to lose, on the HDD, then, don't do that, do this instead.
^^^^^^ this is what you're looking for
I posted it - your comment is unnecessary.

you have a healthy self-confidence

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2008-11-10 14:05:43

#12

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6863|Seattle

I know you've probably already fixed this issue, but I just wanted to elaborate on what I had mentioned in my previous post.
In my experience, the quicker/easier way to fix errors like these (file missing/corrupt) on machines that won't boot, usually just requires pulling your "corrupted" hard drive out and running it as a secondary drive on another machine. Then I run "chkdsk (drive letter): /f" from a command prompt. It's a ten minute job and it usually works. I've had pretty good success using this method. I'm not saying that this would 100% fix your hard drive, but I've seen this error and many like it resolved by chkdsk. Hopefully one of these methods mentioned above will help.

Ta-ta for now

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2008-11-11 00:34:57

#13

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

max wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
steelie34 wrote:

^^^^^^ this is what you're looking for
I posted it - your comment is unnecessary.
you have a healthy self-confidence

thx. Seen this recently. Pretty certain I'm right.

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