[Guardian 452]

My PC went belly up on me yesterday. Im using my wifes laptop at the moment, while I try and figure out how to get my pc running again.

Yesterday when I went to turn it on I kept geting stuck and getting error messages before windows would open up.


Here are examples of the messages I was getting

the registry cannot load the hive (file) \systemroot\system32\config\SOFTWARE
its corrupt, absent, or not wrtiable


I tried using f8 and stating in safemode, and using last know good configuration, both times I get this message.

Windows could not start because the following fine is mising or corrupt: \WINXP\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM


Then it tells me I can attept to repair this file by starting the windows setup from my windows CD.... well I finally got it to read the CD right away and I got it to start up this repair mode..... But I cant figure ut how it works at all!!

I'd appreciate any help from the community... in walking me thru this and geting my PC back!


Thanks

G-452