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ARG I H@te WINDOWS XP!!!! (pardon the @ symbol but my rents have a g@y filter on the internet!)
Ok, so i have this sweet new gaming system. 256 MSI SLI ready vid card running on a fan-less ABIT mobo with 1 gig of ram some sweet blue LED fans a SAMSUNG DVD/CD burner wiht lightscribe and a normal CD drive for my doom 3 pleashure. Well then i put windows XP PRO on it becasue well its better than home. So this sweet system works well for a week or two then yesterday all heck broke loose. So that morning before leaving for work i shut down the computer properly. 8 hours later i get home and turn it on to see this message
A KEY SYSTEM FILE IS EITHER MISSING OR CORRUPTED.
THE WINDOWS SYSTEM FILE
C:/windows/system/system32/system.ini (or whatever the extension is)
IS EITHER MISSING OR CORRUPT
PLEASE REINSTALL WINDOWS
OMG i f-ing it. So i put in my win XP PRO disk and run the repair utility. No good. Then i try uninstall and reinstall. No Good. So Then i cry as i tell it to reformat all my hard drive. Well that finally worked but now i have to re-register windows (gags) and i have to get rid of the 30 gigs of HD space thats my old windows account s documents folder. BUT IT Won’t LET ME Access THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so if anyone else s windows please comment. And please if you know a program that can delete the 30 gigs tell me.
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| Jay | comments | views |
thinkback
Wow, a kickass system managed by a complete newbie.
Seek help would be my advice.
<best advice evar>Sell your PC and get a Mac.</best advice evar>
wow i totally get burned for asking for help sorry im such an idiot
My advice: the next time you get an error message, plug the gist of it into Google or ask for help on a forum. I think we can all agree that you wouldn’t have had to reinstall if you had googled and/or asked for help on an online forum.
Concerning your problem: Your best bet is to boot into safe mode andand log in as admin and try to delete the files. To boot into safemode, hit WinKey+R and type ‘msconfig’ without the quotes. Under the boot.ini tab, tick “/Safeboot” and click okay. Reboot. Log in as Admin in safe mode and try to delete the folder. To reboot back in normal mode, follow the directions above, but untick “/safeboot”.
| Aug. 18, 2006 | |
| Liam | 9:15 pm |
Concerning your problem: Your best bet is to boot into safe mode andand log in as admin and try to delete the files. To boot into safemode, hit WinKey+R and type ‘msconfig’ without the quotes. Under the boot.ini tab, tick “/Safeboot� and click okay. Reboot. Log in as Admin in safe mode and try to delete the folder. To reboot back in normal mode, follow the directions above, but untick “/safeboot�.
You could also reboot while repeatedly pressing the F5 key, or F8 (as it boots up not while telling it to reboot). I doubt you will be able to do anything with it unless you change the permissions like I explained earlier.
| Aug. 20, 2006 | |
| 9:54 pm |
That’s a nasty error to get. My XP runs just fine. It’s home media center so I thought at the beginning that there will be a waist of resources because of this but the Microsoft guys thought things up nicely. They separated the media center from the rest of the Xp so I don’t have to stumble upon unwanted features.
| Jul. 14, 2008 | ||
| 2:20 pm |
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Your problem has to do with permissions. You need to log in as administrator, find the folder you are attempting to delete, right-click it and select properties from the context menu.
From there you can use this guide: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/document ation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/acl_set_perm issions.mspx
Sorry I cannot compose a more complete guide, but at the moment I only have access to a XP Home machine.