Troubles with winxp, ARGH!

Hey all

Aiight, this problem happend more than once on my box. I'm running Windows Xp pro Final on it since aobut a week. Everything was running great in the morning, i came back in the afternoon and i get that error:

C:\WINDOWS\SYTEM\SYSTEM32\CONFIG is corrupted or cannot be found.

I'm brand new on Windows XP so, i dont know how to fix it by the repair console. Does anybody knows how to fix that??? I dont want to format the whole thing cause, i got some valuable stuff in there unless if i can backup my files throught the network in the repair console.

Thanks for you time,
PEace

This is kinda important :(

How are you shutting down?

There is a bug associated with fast processors and autoshutdown that causes the computer to power off before windows has written to some hive. Did it say anything about a hive?

I had that once and there was nothing to do but format.
Microsoft isnt able to replicate it so they dont have a patch yet

nothing about HIV... i got the exact message in my face:

Windows could not start because the following file is missong or currupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

You can attempt to repair this file by starting the Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.

Well, is there a way for me to backup my stuff b4 format?

Thanks

the 'r' means repair. Just boot up to the cd and choose repair.
If you have an extra hard drive, you can boot with that, and copy necessary file to it in case you want to format

aiight! it is working like good!!! thanks alot dude