03-02-2011, 11:27 AM
Late last week we had some severe weather roll through and it fried the video card in the PC of one of my daughters. So I ordered a new card which arrived yesterday. After all kinds of issues with installation that I won't get into that ended with the new card in her sister's computer and her sister's card in her computer I finally had her computer in a state where it would boot up with graphics. However, at some point in the fiddling with graphics cards her OS got corrupted. Now when I boot her computer I get some message about a missing or corrupt file in windows/system32/config/system.
At the advice of Snow on Vent last night I tried booting to a Win XP disk and starting the process of an install hoping that Windows would see the existing installation and do a repair. It did not. If I go out to a recovery console I am unable to do a DIR of the hard drive as it seems the NTFS file table is corrupt. I tried running a chkdsk from the recovery console this morning. It churned for several hours but to no avail. The computer gets the same message at boot.
Now my wife and I homeschool our kids and all of my daughter's schoolwork except for her math is on her computer so re-formatting and re-installing as Windows wants to do at this point is not an option.
The only idea I have at this point is to mount her HD as a secondary drive in another computer and hope I can pull all of the data off.
The whole point of this post is to see if anyone knows of any other recovery options I could try to get her OS up and running again.
At the advice of Snow on Vent last night I tried booting to a Win XP disk and starting the process of an install hoping that Windows would see the existing installation and do a repair. It did not. If I go out to a recovery console I am unable to do a DIR of the hard drive as it seems the NTFS file table is corrupt. I tried running a chkdsk from the recovery console this morning. It churned for several hours but to no avail. The computer gets the same message at boot.
Now my wife and I homeschool our kids and all of my daughter's schoolwork except for her math is on her computer so re-formatting and re-installing as Windows wants to do at this point is not an option.
The only idea I have at this point is to mount her HD as a secondary drive in another computer and hope I can pull all of the data off.
The whole point of this post is to see if anyone knows of any other recovery options I could try to get her OS up and running again.
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"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead." -Margaret Thatcher