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win xp loses system32.reg on restar
Name: earl Date: September 5, 2002 at 17:08:00 Pacific OS: win xp home CPU/Ram: amd xp1600/384ddr
Comment:
I upgraded from Win me 6 months ago, smooth sailing until other day when I restarted by accident[meant to shutdown], comp. rebooted but I got a black screen with "windows unable to find a file , win\system\system32\system.log, rstart with cd and select r at first screen. reloaded-ran for 1 day, new hdd- ran 3 days,new ram, new video, new power supply, no difference. If I shutdown it will start normally next time, if I restart it loses this the system reg or system log and locks. What the Heck is going on?
Name: Madman Date: September 6, 2002 at 07:22:00 Pacific
Reply:
From what I have read on the subject of upgrading from ME to XP, it is highly recommended to do so. Problems such as yours are not un-common. A clean install is the preferred method if you want to reduce the probability of errors downstream. Here are a couple of sites where the folks there know more than I can hope to on the subject:
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