My question concerns a non destructive recovery, xp-Home?

Question

When I start the non destructive
recovery it starts copying files.
It stops on some and a message
box pops up stating that the file
could not be extracted. Is this a
normal part of the process. It ran
through quite a few with same till
it came to NTFS and stayed there
for over an hour. So I shut off the
power. The reason I want to do a
recovery is when I boot up I get a
Windows could not start because
the following file is missing or
corrupt.
\windows\system32\config\system
I went into dos and found that autoexec.bat, config.sys,
graph16, and NTFS showed zero bytes of data. I have a HP Pavilion
that sold without operating system disk. Is it normal for the recovery
process to be unable to extract
certain files? Is config.sys, etc.
in the hidden partition system
recovery files? I hope someone
can help me.

Answer 1

Here's the Microsoft page that gives full details of the recovry for this error, I've used it myself, BUT you WILL need access to an XP CD to boot from to initialise the recovery system.

Try to borrow one from a friend, you don't need to install, just have it there for it to copy some critical files from.

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

Answer 2

Your best bet is to get an actual XP disk and run a system recovery. The big problem with recovery disks provided by companies like Dell, HP, Gateway etc.... is that they typically do not have the full OS on the disk. So recovering critical files can sometimes be near impossible. My suggestion....call a friend and get a real XP disk, perform a repair(NOT through the recovery console!) or call HP and make them fix it.

Answer 3

damaging restoration .will eliminate each and every thing off demandingchronic ur want urchronic cd so which you would be able to place in all workstation drivers. in case you dont have which you will conclusion up without drivers for workstation. non damaging restoration . will reset up workstation an application that replace into on workstation interior the frist place

Answer 4

i would do a reinstallation over top of all your current files. anything u want to keep will still be there. it will just overwrite the windows directory.