hp 1801 microcode update error

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olderndirt

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May not be the correct place and the last word in the title could easily be 'terror'. My little saga of installing another drive has met roadblock(s) - see title above. I've downloaded what may a corrective patch (bios?) from the HP site. Haven't been able to install it yet because of this other wrinkle. When attempting to boot XP, I'm getting this - WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM is missing or corrupt. Unfortunately this is all happening with the one XP drive that Microsoft likes. The other, from an Ebay refurb, has a questionable lineage (no five group code) but that's the one I was planning to clean for use as a slave. With that drive, there's no boot without the code and with the other, no corrective patch 'til I can boot. Any thoughts/comments appreciated.
 
Are you using a legal version of xp, with a legal product key?
Second on the computer with the missing corupt file you need to use an xp disk and do a repair.
 
In answer to the first question, I'd have to say no. Microsoft was quite adamant about that. Buying on Ebay is strictly 'caveat emptor'. About the corrupt file - there's a problem progressing beyond the corruption. My attempts to create an 'Automated System Repair' disk have been unsuccessful though I do have an XP disk that came with the computer in question. It gives me a boot from the CD but only takes me to where I need the ASR disk.
 
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