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At 11:18 PM 9/25/2004, Jimmy wrote:
Friday I heard funny sounds most of the day.
Hi Jimmy!

Don't know if it's in the stars or what, but my OS got hosed AGAIN (2nd time in 2 weeks), even tho I installed a new, parallel WIN2k OS on the drive and reinstalled many (not most) of my apps again over the past days. I noticed things were running somewhat slower, and the HD's were spending a LOT of time accessing. Not sure if having the corrupt old OS still on the disk had anything to do with it, but I was going to either rename or delete it anyway.

I never got that far, as I totally shut down my PC Fri after the Close, then went to turn it on Sat morning when it got as far as the Starting Windows progress bar. Then it said it couldn't start Windows because the following file is missing or corrupt:
"\WIN\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" (actually if there's more it must've gotten truncated, since another sentence seems merged with this message, saying "...anced startup options for Windows2000, press F8. You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows2000 Setup using the original Setup floppy disk or CD-ROM. Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair."

I tried to use my CD to repair things, but the tray wouldn't open. Figuring an electrical problem I rocked the connector a few times. No luck. So I started again from a cold boot. This time the tray opened & I inserted the CD. It didn't start running for some reason, and didn't even when I rebooted with it in the drive. I don't know what to do here, as I really hope this will fix things. It's currently set in the CMOS to start after the floppy drive and before the HD.

Also, I'm stumped as to why this OS issue even happened. With a brand new Install of my OS things should've been OK. Yet, I'm having problems again (not exactly the same ones as I posted about before, but somewhat related). I sure hope someone can help out on this. I'm really getting desperate.

Thnx again,

Michael Guess