was surfing on my laptop last night and suddenly saw the blue screen, computer rebooted and I was left with:
Windows could not start becasue the following file is missing or corrupt:
\windows\system32\config\system
You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM, etc, etc.
Problem is that this is a Toshiba laptop that came preloaded with XP - I have the Toshiba startup disks, but they don't do anything for this registry problem. I searched the web this morning, and found one Microsoft article describing how to possibly rectify the situation, but it too requires having these startup disks.
I then looked through/searched Microsoft downloads, and can find a download for computers without a bootable CD-Rom (I think this one has a bootable...) looks like this particular download once run will require 6 floppy disks...again, this is a laptop with only a cd/dvd drive.
How do I go about getting these start-up disks?
Thanks so much!