Trouble after SP2 installation

Question

OK. I called dell support and without paying $120.00 or more I was able to get the rep to give a suggestion.  First I ran Norton 360 to make sure there were no threats. Then I ran adaware for spyware. Then I run msconfig and turned off all the items that were checked in the startup. Then I installed sp2 from the disk that I got from microsoft. As soon as the pc rebooted it said, Windows Registry Recovery,  One of the files containing the system registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy, The recovery was successful.  the pc started and ran for about two minutes and then froze up.  I restarted the pc and guess what...... windows could not start because the fallowing file is missing or corrupt,  \windows\system32\config\system.  Now my system will not start.  What should I do?

DeagleHS · Answer

Where are you getting the SP2 file from? It is possible that the update source is bad if this keeps happening

Dudpc · Answer

All programs are genuine.  This will be about the tenth time I have tried this.  Not all at once of course.  Sooner or later I will hopefully find a solution.

Dudpc · Answer

Thanks.  The real problem starts after I install SP2. We'll see how it goes this time.

Dudpc · Answer

Never tried to do that. I am currently re formatting the hard drive again to re install windows again.

DeagleHS · Answer

I dunno if this will work but have you tried booting up the system, i think press F8 at the start and boot 'From last know good configuration' ???   Do you know how to do this?

DeagleHS · Answer

Ohh just as an after thought, If you dont have a legal version of Windows XP and you update to SP2 ive heard some funky things can start going wrong.   Hopefully this was a once off error in the update.

DeagleHS · Answer

Well that will resolve your problem but just takes a while longer, well good luck with it.

DeagleHS · Answer

Is this the first the time you have re-formatted the harddrive ?

mombodog · Answer

Slipstream SP2 into that XP install disk.   http://www.simplyguides.net/guides/using_autostreamer/using_autostreamer.shtml

Dudpc · Answer

Probably about the tenth time overall.

Dudpc · Answer

I finally learned that I could get a copy of SP2 from microsoft.  I was hoping this would fix it, but same problem.

simpswr · Answer

Have you looked for a BIOS update for your model?

mombodog · Answer

By the way, what model Dell is it?

Windows General

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