Computer Problem (quite technical)

[Nick]

I turned my computer off last night, and everything was fine.

Turned it on today and it said "cannoth initiate windows C:\windows\system32\config\system is corrupt"

So i stuck my xp cd in and booted it up with this, i then went into the system repair console and run the CHDSK command, this found a couple of errors and i now can start my computer !

It's screwed up in the past (i got the Blue screen of death once ? ) And i have about 50gb of music on this computer.

Just wondering if anyone has an idea if this is likely to be an on-going problem or was it just something that went corrupt when it was shut-down ?

if so i'l back it all up and get the comp upgraded and formatted !

Thanks nick

[mad-driver]

id make regular backups anyway mate you never know when the bloody things are gonna go wrong.

could be a number of things, maybe improper shutdown like you say but backup your stuff

tis a nasty error by all means :o

[Rick_Nova]

hmmm thats normally a big problem! i had that before, had too reformatt! think its the start up or shut down file not sure, id back stuff up then just re formatt :) or you could just 'repair windows' it may work also?

[Jack]

the RIAA are hacking your pc lol

[Nick]

my computer is working now, hence why i am on novaload. just wondering wether to trust shutting it down again

RIAA ?

[Rick_Nova]

hmmm suprised its automatically fixed?! check for virus's etc, if no probs then i personally would reinstall windows (can be done without re formatting) maybe back up stuff? or i think its norton ghost when you can go back in too a saved point? see how it goes i guess

[Rick_Nova]

hmmm suprised its automatically fixed?! check for virus's etc, if no probs then i personally would reinstall windows (can be done without re formatting) maybe back up stuff? or i think its norton ghost when you can go back in too a saved point? see how it goes i guess

[Alex]

Reinstall windows for something as simple as that?
Why?

When you say you ran check disk what do you mean?
Do you mean recovery console, then
CHK DSK /r
command?

If so and this has fixed it I wouldn't worry about it.

[Jack]

RIAA ?
Recording Industry Artists of America or something like that.... basically the music industy; in the process of taking all their customers to court for filesharing on the net lol

Apparently, some woman in Cheltenham got a sizeable threat (sizeable as in ?2500 rising to ?4000 if she didn't pay, er, yesterday lol) through the post recently because her daughter downloads lots of music from fileshares...

[Dpnova]

source another hdd, use the one with music as a slave and then even if you operating sytems dies you have no worries