The Desktop computer system that my sister is using is running a Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2).
The Windows installation is almost 2 years old, however I was really surprised how the damned Microsoft software broke.
Here is how, one day I got really mad at my sister she completely drove me out of myself.
Being affected by her continuous unethical behaviour I decided to return it back to her and logged in with Window’s
administrator account and changed her password.
The Spybot Search and Destroy (S&D) spyware active protection (Tea Timer) warned me that some registry settings will be changed whileI was changing my syster’s Windows password and I accepted the change.Hereafter I restarted the system afterwards and guess what? Windows couldn’t boot anymore!
Let me ask you a question is that unsual for the shitty Windows operating system? NO IT’S ABSOLUTELY NORMAL :)!
That pissed me off a bit so I left the machine with unbootable Windows System for a few weeks ’till today.
The error message which occured during Windows boot time was:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing
or corrupt:
WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM
You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup
using the original CD-ROM.
Select ‘r’ at the first screen to start repair.
To fix the issue I had to call a friend (Alex) and ask him for a Windows XP SP2 install cd.
We used the Windows System Recovery console to boot up and access the file system. After the Recovery Console loadedwe tried to switch to the C: drive but the hard drive was taking ages scraping through the drive, with thehdd led indicator blinking all the time.
First I suspected something could be wrong with the hard drive on the physical hdd layer. However I instructed Alex,to issue the CHKDSK command to see if that would do any good.
That’s it the good old CHKDSK fixed the file system issues and we rebooted. And hooray such a joy!
Unbelievable the System worked again! Hooray! 🙂
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