nurkvinny Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Besides life in general hitting the fan today, my Dell decided to take a shit. Specs Dell Dimension 8400 3.2mhz 2 x 160gig HD 2gig RAM other goodies Wife used the PC today, worked perfectly, shut down fine. I try to use it, and get - ---- \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SAM missing or corrupt. Try a few things, then get ---- \SystemRoot\System32\Config\DEFAULT missing or corrupt. Try a few things, then get ---- \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SECURITY missing or corrupt. Try a few things, then get ---- "unknown Hard Error" I am thinking the HD took a shit, don't have a scandisk disk. I am posting this from an ancient POS Windows 98 PC... any suggestions welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 if you can ever get it to boot into safe mode put your XP cd in and STart/run: SFC /scannow (there is a space between the C and forward slash.) Maybe you could run that also with a command prompt? This scans all the core files of windows and replaces them with the files off the disk if they are found to be corrupt. I was givin this by MS when I had a failure. Maybe you tried this and it didn't work, just trying to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [ i v i ] Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 +1 on the hard drive crashing. Just had a 3 year old Sony VAIO with a Seagate drive crash on me 2 months ago. Lost everything and it did the same thing yours is doing. BTW, I've got a brand new Samsung 300GB HD sitting in front of me right now. Paid $120 for it, but would be willing to let it go for less. PM me if interested. P.S. It has to operating system on it right now, brand new never used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted January 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Ben, I can't get it to boot into any mode yet. Still trying. Brian, thanks for the offer, but I have 2 160g drives in it now. Worst case is I am down to 160g. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 were you running windows on a raid array? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted January 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Posting from my new laptop. A buddy who owns his own PC troubleshooting company is coming over tomorrow to have a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street pilot Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 start tapping f8 while its booting, get you the boot menu? Do you ever get to the windows splash screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nurkvinny Posted January 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 Ben, yes raid=0 I can get to the boot menus. I can get to the splash screen. Attempting XP Pro reload here shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 I had the same experience with a raid 0 array, I lost everything I didn't have backed up. It wasn't much but it still hurt. I hope things go better for you. My array went bad when I was booting windows on the raid array and the power supply took a shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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