Problem: I had a power surge at my house over the weekend. As I was checking out some of the electrical problems in my house, I noticed that my monitor had that ugly message: WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM file missing or corrupt.....
I have a surge protector, too! Scary, eh?
The reason I bring this up is to re-emphasize my entry of a few days ago, entitled Gambling With Your Data. Please read that one. If you think it will never happen to you, believe me, it will.
Solution: My hard drive was not damaged, it just had corrupted data. So, I ran XP setup but didn't delete the existing partition. After reinstalling XP I was able to get to all the other data. It's a little messy since the reinstallation gives you a new registry and user profile, but it's better than wiping the system and then restoring everything from backups most of the time. I then did some application reinstalls to re-establish the registry entries.
Luckily, I also had my important stuff backed up on CDs, as well. I didn't need the backups this time, but next time who knows.....
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