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Unfortunately every command:
"No matching files were found" OR
"The system cannot the file or directory specified".
I have cloned the drive in question and tried this process on the original and the clone with the same results.
Could somebody please help?
I should point out i've have had a major crash.
i can boot into windows but the screen is blank.
Next i control/alt/del then "file" on the task manager top left. i then type something like msconfig or system restore. After i've done this the desktop icons begin slowly to appear.
Now what happens is that every application in startup IE. antivirus, firewall, updater, and about 20 others come up with a dll error (not a valid win32 etc check against the installation disk) message. Browser, Outlook, AVG, and just about everything else comes up with the same error. there is also an ntvdldr cpu error (or something like it) and a dos error, an SVCHost could not be read, and on it goes.
I have a backup and the errors were all automatically backed up to that as well as this happens on both disks. I have 2 other operating systems on their own HDD's: Vista 32 and 64 on the same computer and they work fine (for M$ at least).
Now i have managed to go through this above process in safe mode and execute a system restore (3 times now).
Always the same errors.
I bit the bullet and decided to do a rtepair install, but you guessed it, repair is not an option. i tried to manually copy the file c:\windows\repair\system to c:\windows\system32\config, but just comes up cannot find the file or directory specified.
BTW: i booted to vista and ran a full virus check and IO bit scan on the XP OS and nothing. i did this twice.
I am trying very hard to get this system up as you can see. i will probably do a fresh install, but i would very much like to do, at the minimum, a repair install (not in Recovery console) first.
System specs are Gigabyte ud4p board, i7 920, 6GB corsair ram, 3x 500gb Western Digital Black HDD's and 1 x 320GB seagate(for XP backup), gtx 295 Graphics card, Corsair HX 1000 watt PSU and the usual other stuff.
I am now determined to get this operating system going again, even if just for the experience (rather than the recovery of the data, because it is all accessible from Vista and in duplicate).
Also, I have run Chkdsc from recovery. it took 4 hours and still the same.
Thanks in advance,
Paul.
"It sounds like you are borked. Try the repair install,"
Every O/S is on its own HDD.
The Repair install is not an option on the setup XP setup page. I don't know why.
For the purpose of any repairs, the computer is on its side and all non relevant HDD's have their power cords disconnected(i scratched into the paint on each drive what O/S was on each drive when i upgraded all my HDD's 6 months ago).
This is a basic precaution that i would recommend as yes i almost caused a disaster one time before! easy to do with all those cables.
Why all the rant???? Be grateful for those who "create" stuff. eg Microsoft. What have you created that is better than windows? You're just a USER. Grow up and bury your bias. This guide is to help guys out, not a forum for critics. Why are you even here when you don't use windows?
I uninstalled Kaspersky and some components went with it. so I was unable to go into windows. Applying this post solved everything.
I find it weird that people come here just to criticize and make off topic comments. Let us all be grateful that someone who knows took the pain to solve our problem free of charge.
Thanks ROBERT HALLOCK. You have really saved me many hours of work, frustration, potential data loss and shelling out your hard-earned greenbacks.
i have been branded as tech savvy since birth and frequently get dumped with impossible tasks. this article gives me a solid foundation for dealing with some common problems. despite no longer using windows i have saved this and many of the relevant comments for reference.
please, though, the word is "search" not "google".
If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly,...choose Last Known Good Configuration to revert to the most recent settings that worked...."
I then have the option to choose to start windows normally, various safe modes or last known good configuration. Choosing normally gets me in this loop of rebooting and the above message. I've chosen safe mode and several lines of "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)...." come up and then it reboots to same message. Choosing last known good configuration gets me to the same message. What am I doing wrong???