Hate for Windows XP. Screwed over by chkdsk (AGAIN X.X)

[Kaz]

Okay, < story>

XP has a lot of compatibility problems, one of the worst in my opinion are the crashes with one of my favorite games: The elder scrolls 3: Morrowind. While I tried over and over again to fix the problem, XP would usually keep dishing out BSODs. Anyways, I uninstalled the game to reinstall and hope it worked then (sometimes helps people). Then reinstalled, when XP started giving errors =\. I cleaned the disc just to make sure it wasn't the disc's fault, it wasn't. So after it reboots from getting a BSOD from a new CD inserted, I forget to skip chkdsk. Big mistake.

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Chkdsk ran over my system and found a lot of errors, nothing too hazardous, then it ran over C:\windows\system32\config. ... ow. It declared that directory as 'broken' (worked before though ;-;) and saved it into a file, where and how to revert? I don't know. Does anybody have a fix since windows basically puts up desktop wall paper configurations over actual stability?



Erm.. bottom line: Windows XP declared it's own registry (probably) as an invalid file. Need to figure out how to recover it.

Oh, I ran the back up program and stored the file on my other disk, the other disk however wont' show up in My Computer. Any ideas on that?

[Link]

If you had all sorts of hard disk errors and are getting BSODs all the time, there's probably something else wrong, like a bad hard drive or bad hardware. Windows XP usually isn't suicidal.

Even if there isn't a hardware problem, it sounds like there is something terribly wrong with your system. Personally I would recommend a format and a fresh install of Windows. Then if that doesn't resolve it, you'll know it is a hardware problem.

I should ask though - when did these problems (the BSODs) start? And have they been fairly regular? What did they say? Is your computer at least semi-working right now? How old is the computer? What motherboard is in it? What kind of processor? Hard drives?

[BlazinDragon]

geeze, im glad i dont have XP ^^' my computer has bugs and feels like committing suicide at least once a week, but i cant help ya there.

Only possibility i see is that u get the windows XP disc and re-install EVERYTHING.

After that, perform a few virus checks and see if it worked. Sorry if i cant help you further. =\

[Kaz]

Erm, yeah, I guess you could say I've had HDD errors becusae I play morrowind and that BSOD's a lot which I guess would lead to corruption.

Anyways, I reinstalled windows XP. Now I just need to figure out how to restore everything.