Guest BH22 Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 MSFT has to come up with a way to load a disk utility similar to chkdsk to attempt to corrupt bad drive sectors, etc. On my machine I see the following message at boot, "windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupted". I have been serching forums/websites etc. for five hours and just ran BartPE. It can't even see my c: drive. This is my second issue with a drive in the past six months. Last time I somehow got chkdsk to run under DOS to fix this issue. This time no luck. Also, I purchased and tried PowerSuite 2007 from Spotmau to attempt fix. I would not recommend this product. Apologies for verbosity, it should not be this hard for a relatively common issue.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Hard Drive Issues Preventing XP Load "BH22" <BH22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:417F9E0B-7EE5-4208-9C98-830F0AB902D8@microsoft.com... > MSFT has to come up with a way to load a disk utility similar to chkdsk to > attempt to corrupt bad drive sectors, etc. On my machine I see the > following > message at boot, "windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupted". > I > have been serching forums/websites etc. for five hours and just ran > BartPE. > It can't even see my c: drive. This is my second issue with a drive in > the > past six months. Last time I somehow got chkdsk to run under DOS to fix > this > issue. This time no luck. Also, I purchased and tried PowerSuite 2007 > from > Spotmau to attempt fix. I would not recommend this product. Apologies > for > verbosity, it should not be this hard for a relatively common issue. And your question was?
Guest DL Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Hard Drive Issues Preventing XP Load Your hd manu. web site will likely have a downloadable utility, which will create a bootable floppy / cd, with which you can test your hd. If the utility shows there are problems, buy a new hd Note; an iffy psu can also lead to hd 'corruption' issues "BH22" <BH22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:417F9E0B-7EE5-4208-9C98-830F0AB902D8@microsoft.com... > MSFT has to come up with a way to load a disk utility similar to chkdsk to > attempt to corrupt bad drive sectors, etc. On my machine I see the > following > message at boot, "windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupted". > I > have been serching forums/websites etc. for five hours and just ran > BartPE. > It can't even see my c: drive. This is my second issue with a drive in > the > past six months. Last time I somehow got chkdsk to run under DOS to fix > this > issue. This time no luck. Also, I purchased and tried PowerSuite 2007 > from > Spotmau to attempt fix. I would not recommend this product. Apologies > for > verbosity, it should not be this hard for a relatively common issue.
Guest BH22 Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Hard Drive Issues Preventing XP Load Very helpful response. Perhaps given your MVP status a better response might have been: a) acknowledge the issue - it is clear what the issue was b) comfirm the difficulty of issue, or communicate otherwise c) suggest a course of action The need for a Boot Disk for windows XP with disk utilities is clear given the multiple related threads here. If you have a clear path to this, please let us all know. "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > "BH22" <BH22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:417F9E0B-7EE5-4208-9C98-830F0AB902D8@microsoft.com... > > MSFT has to come up with a way to load a disk utility similar to chkdsk to > > attempt to corrupt bad drive sectors, etc. On my machine I see the > > following > > message at boot, "windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupted". > > I > > have been serching forums/websites etc. for five hours and just ran > > BartPE. > > It can't even see my c: drive. This is my second issue with a drive in > > the > > past six months. Last time I somehow got chkdsk to run under DOS to fix > > this > > issue. This time no luck. Also, I purchased and tried PowerSuite 2007 > > from > > Spotmau to attempt fix. I would not recommend this product. Apologies > > for > > verbosity, it should not be this hard for a relatively common issue. > > And your question was? > > >
Guest BH22 Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Hard Drive Issues Preventing XP Load Thanks for the response. I did download a Seagate utility to build a boot CD that would run a check on the drive. Strangely, it could not find the drive (similar response from booting from Windows XP install disk). The fix finally was just using the OEMs restore disk. It was able to execute and backup data, but the backing up data was a real concern as the program listed data loss as a significant risk. Thanks again! "DL" wrote: > Your hd manu. web site will likely have a downloadable utility, which will > create a bootable floppy / cd, with which you can test your hd. > If the utility shows there are problems, buy a new hd > > Note; an iffy psu can also lead to hd 'corruption' issues > > "BH22" <BH22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:417F9E0B-7EE5-4208-9C98-830F0AB902D8@microsoft.com... > > MSFT has to come up with a way to load a disk utility similar to chkdsk to > > attempt to corrupt bad drive sectors, etc. On my machine I see the > > following > > message at boot, "windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupted". > > I > > have been serching forums/websites etc. for five hours and just ran > > BartPE. > > It can't even see my c: drive. This is my second issue with a drive in > > the > > past six months. Last time I somehow got chkdsk to run under DOS to fix > > this > > issue. This time no luck. Also, I purchased and tried PowerSuite 2007 > > from > > Spotmau to attempt fix. I would not recommend this product. Apologies > > for > > verbosity, it should not be this hard for a relatively common issue. > > >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: Hard Drive Issues Preventing XP Load I have been in this game for far too long to second-guess the question that the OP meant to ask but never quite got around to. This applies to your post too: I would not have guessed that you were asking about a bootable utilities disk. As it happens, you're already aware of the Bart PE bood CD. In my opinion this is an essential tool for administrators. Maybe Microsoft have included something like this under Vista. "BH22" <BH22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4C969AF2-A3D9-4A24-9A02-00816522531D@microsoft.com... > Very helpful response. Perhaps given your MVP status a better response > might > have been: > a) acknowledge the issue - it is clear what the issue was > b) comfirm the difficulty of issue, or communicate otherwise > c) suggest a course of action > > The need for a Boot Disk for windows XP with disk utilities is clear given > the multiple related threads here. If you have a clear path to this, > please > let us all know. > > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > >> >> "BH22" <BH22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:417F9E0B-7EE5-4208-9C98-830F0AB902D8@microsoft.com... >> > MSFT has to come up with a way to load a disk utility similar to chkdsk >> > to >> > attempt to corrupt bad drive sectors, etc. On my machine I see the >> > following >> > message at boot, "windows\system32\config\system is missing or >> > corrupted". >> > I >> > have been serching forums/websites etc. for five hours and just ran >> > BartPE. >> > It can't even see my c: drive. This is my second issue with a drive in >> > the >> > past six months. Last time I somehow got chkdsk to run under DOS to >> > fix >> > this >> > issue. This time no luck. Also, I purchased and tried PowerSuite 2007 >> > from >> > Spotmau to attempt fix. I would not recommend this product. Apologies >> > for >> > verbosity, it should not be this hard for a relatively common issue. >> >> And your question was? >> >> >>
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