This is what I have a Hdd which is OK,a boot CD,my original XP home CD and a non booting XP laptop.?

Question

This is what I have

1. a Hdd which is ok (with a rescue partition).
2.a boot cd.
3. My original XP home cd.
4.Koppix linux os on cd
5.Packard bell 2316 with non booting Xp,\windows\system32\config\system missing or corrupt.


Nothing I try works!
I have backed up important data using Koppix to acces the hdd.Booting from cd both with Xp and boot cd just end up with error messages because at some point I am always prompted to select a valid Windows installation (number 1) which gives an registry error message and a reboot.

I am happy to reformat/reinstall whatever,but dont get that option.
(if I put my xp cd in my (working) desktop,I get a reinstall option)

any suggestions

I also have

6.no money
7.three kids
8.a wife who doersn't understand me.
9 a stressful job
10.toothache
11.middle spread

oh yes and I'm bald.

but if you can help with the laptop problem it would be a start!

Answer 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

XP Home edition boot disk utility can be downloaded from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8fe6868-6e4f-471c-b455-bd5afee126d8&DisplayLang=en

Answer 2

I can help with the toothache and the bald. Just go bald. Shave. The chicks love it. Toothache: immediate dentistry. Don't wait; toothache doesn't get better on its own.

Kids are their own reward, despite the physical and emotional savaging they give you.

Give the install CDs to the wife. That will cure problem 8, which to be honest is more of a bummer than problems 1-5.

You might go on Freecycle, get yourself a knackered old computer and plunder it - that might give you a working disk which you might be able to ghost off using Norton Ghost (but BE CAREFUL with that! and don't use the floppy method!)

Alternatively, balz to the lot of them: just solve problem 11 and all the rest will solve themselves. We will next hear of you flouncing down a red carpet with a model on each arm. Laptop shmaptop.

Answer 3

So pop in the disk and get cracklelacking, this is a no brainer, boot from the CD and create fresh partitions. If you want to install koppix you can do that to, personally I am nto a fan of koppix, I use Ubuntu but if you are smart enough to get it installed you are smart enough to know what to do next.

Answer 4

I can empathize, still no money, am balder, but Son on his own many years & I have been medically retired since age 47. This is my "WINDOWS" to the world & with a son in danger in the Middle East, I know how important this is to you.
1. WHO IS YOUR COMPUTER MANUFACTURER.?
2. IS IT A RECENT REPLACEMENT OR DID YOU
MAKE CHANGES TO OLDER COMPUTER? ADDED
MEMORY, NEW DRIVES, etc.?
3. DID IT COME INSTALLED WITH WINDOWS WHETHER
YOU ARE USING MICROSOFT AS YOUR HOME PAGE
OR NOT?
4. IF OLDER COMPUTER HAVE YOU CHECKED WITH
EITHER MANUFACTURER LINKS OR MICROSOFT LINKS
TO SEE IF YOUR COMPUTER IS CAPABLE OF USING
THE NEW MS VISTA/AERO OPERATING SYSTEM.
***THIS IS CRUCIAL***
A CHANGE TO NEW COMPUTER, OR UPGRADING TO
INTERNET EXPLORER 7, (WHICH RECOMMENDS
YAHOO), OR TRYING TO UPGRADE OLDER NON VISTA
CAPABLE MACHINES CAN & HAVE CAUSED SIMILAR
& EVEN MORE SERIOUS CONFLICTS THAT COULD
MAKE YOUR MACHINE INOPERABLE.
I HAVE EVEN HAD TO HAVE A U.S. CONGRESSMAN INTERCEDE WITH MICROSOFT.

IF AS I SUSPECT, THAT RECENT CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE, "THERE IS HOPE! THERE IS A WORKAROUND FOR
FOR SIGNING BACK IN WITHOUT DENIAL OF PERMISSION.
I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH GATEWAY, MICROSOFT,
YAHOO, & PHONE, & INTERNET SUPPLIERS VIRTUALLY FULL TIME FOR A MONTH.
THERE IS GOOD NEWS & BAD NEWS & I WILL TRY TO GIVE YOU "MAYBE A USABLE MACHINE", Depending on answers to questions. I am doing research and documenting same to try to resolve some currently occuring conflicts & soon to be more frequent problems.
I will respond as soon as you post answers & will give what INFO I have.
PLEASE READERS! I HAVE POSTED A QUESTION ALSO THIS MORNING ON YAHOO ASK UNDER --- COMPUTERS---
GENERAL. PLEASE BE POLITE & DONT FLOOD ME WITH GENERAL COMMENTS BE SPECIFIC. THIS IS A WORLDWIDE PROBLEM FOR WINDOWS LIVE IM/MAIL SERVICES & YAHOO, AOL, GOOGLE, etc. EVEN MY LATEST UP TO THE MOMENT HI-TECH MEDIA CENTER COMPUTER CANNOT HANDLE A MILLION GENERAL ANSWERS. I BET YAHOO SERVERS DONT WANT TO GET BOGGED DOWN EITHER. But do spread the word that this is general, no person has to be alone in this if all try to help.

Answer 5

put your xp disk in drive restart computer it should then ask you to press any key to boot from cd just overwrite windows you will not loose anything you will have to change your boot in bios to 1st boot cd hope this helps

Answer 6

So your windows is corrupted? windows always does its sucks
but yes just turn of computer place XP disk in and click new install and delete the partion and just reinstall it
make sure you format it to anything accept FAT i cant rember what the other ones called , easiest way
from 14 year old kid =D