I have a Dell Dimension 4700 2 gbs ram (2x 512mb added on) 3 ghz processor 7600 gtx xxx 256mb graphics card 80 gb hard drive. Windows XP Pro SP 2

So I restarted my computer yesterday and was rudely smacked in the face with this problem. It is a black screen saying I have a missing or corrupt ntfs.sys file. I have the Windows XP Pro Reinstall disc and took it upon myself to try to fix it. I would rather not have to reinstall windows to fix this problem, but at the moment it is not looking that good. I looked online repair options such as repairing the partition and repairing using the recovery setup, but wasn't given the option. Basically I tried to rename the ntfs.sys file by typing:

ren C:\windows\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys ntfs.bad

 

The respond i receive is:

 

The system cannot find the file or directory specified.

 

I deduced that the problem was that the file had somehow gone missing for reasons unknown. I did not try to convert my hard drive or anything of that nature. I then tried to copy directly from the disc using the command:

copy d:\i386\ntfs.sys c:\windows\system32\drivers

and the response i get is:

1 files copied

So that's all good then i restart and get the problem corrupt file, pci.sys

So i attempt the same thing, but this time, I am unable to get to it because my access is denied. I am not given the option to login as admin or anything. I'm currently running a ChkDsk at the moment to see if it does anything, but it takes a bit. I plan to see if I can do a normal XP repair after this, but who knows. Any help would make me forever indebted to someone.

Thanks a lot,

Theflexmaster