XP Computer won't start (Missing/Corrupt 'System' file) - recently added new hard drive
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Hi all,
Pulling my hair out here. I recently replaced my D: 1TB drive (not a system drive) with a new 1.5TB drive. I loaded Windows XP, formatted the new drive and it was showing as working fine, alongside my C: windows system drive.
I restart my machine and all of a sudden, Windows doesn't load and instead I get:
"Windows could not start beause the following file is missing or corrupt"
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
I don't have the original XP installation CD, although I do have another copy of XP, when I try and boot to it, I get the blue 'STOP' screen after it attempts to load the setup utlity for about a minute.
Can someone please help? When I set up my new hard drive as a primary partition did this someone screw up my C: hard drive? Did it perhaps unmount it somehow?
Any help would be fantastic. Thanks
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