Hi all, I was surfing the net the other day and all of a sudden the screen went blank and then booted up it said 'Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
So I put in my Set up CD/ROM as it was asking for it and basically I lost all of my data cos it wiped everything and put a new fresh Windows XP from scratch... Some people would think great I have got it up and running again,however I was really upset because I had lost everything.
Do you guys think it was some kind of virus that did this in the first place?
Do you think it was Microsoft checking to see if I had a genuine XP?
Is there an easier way of preventing this in the future and not having to redo the whole windows xp thing? U.K.MAN
So I put in my Set up CD/ROM as it was asking for it and basically I lost all of my data cos it wiped everything and put a new fresh Windows XP from scratch... Some people would think great I have got it up and running again,however I was really upset because I had lost everything.
Do you guys think it was some kind of virus that did this in the first place?
Do you think it was Microsoft checking to see if I had a genuine XP?
Is there an easier way of preventing this in the future and not having to redo the whole windows xp thing? U.K.MAN