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systemroot/system32/config/software
Name: keff wilson Date: June 10, 2002 at 09:07:38 Pacific
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i have win2000 pro i had it installed everything worked fine for a while now it wont boot up and i get a blue screen that says a file is corrupt bad or missing. file is systemroot/system32/config/software. then a dump occurs and then it goes through the process of booting up again, and keeps going through the dump and rebooting
Name: Morgan Date: June 10, 2002 at 11:18:15 Pacific
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I started to go into this long stink about what this could be, but suffice it to say you need to replace the file in question, which you failed to name. Otherwise you need to re-install. If re-installation of the OS fails, then your hard drive is probably trash. Disk repair/checking software would come in handy right about now too.
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Response Number 2
Name: Patrick Ryan Date: June 11, 2002 at 09:36:00 Pacific
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Actually, this error message could very well be caused by a bad boot.ini file. Can you boot to the recovery console? You should be able to boot from the original CD and get there. From there, you should be able to look at the boot.ini file and see if it's correct. Did you add any hardware or change partitions at all?
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Response Number 3
Name: Keff wilson Date: June 12, 2002 at 13:33:06 Pacific
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no i have not added any hardware or changed any partition.
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Response Number 4
Name: Enes76 Date: July 28, 2002 at 06:36:43 Pacific
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I have the same problem, and i know what the problem is. The problem is that the file C:\Winnt\System32\Config\Software is corrupted, what you can do is: (if you have made a backup ofcourse) goto c:\winnt\repair\ .. you will see there a couple of files, one of them is software. rename c:\winnt\system32\config\software into software.bak and copy these from repair folder. So.. now you can boot up normally.. If you did't make a actually backup, you must re-install your software
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