Repair config sys file

Pls Help! What to search discussions comments polls. April edited January in Hardware. Since a few days, my OS has been refusing to start, going straight to the screen which asks which configuration you'd like to start windows with i.

It is corrupt, absent, or not writable. I tried a repair with my XP disc, but couldn't seem to get the screen up which asks for 'r' if you want to repair, thought, with the disc in the drive, on one occasion windows did boot, i got a message saying something had been repaired, but then the same problem happened again, when I tried to boot up the pc the next day.

I also noticed that Config. As far as i am aware i have not implemented any software or hardware changes recently, which is what most microsoft help documents indicated the problem is. What do i do? I am at a loss, and am scared to turn my pc off, in case i can't start it up again.

Any help would be a god send THanks for reading Keira. Gobbles Ventura California. April edited April You may need to set the boot sequence in the bios. Most systems you can access the bios by hitting the delete key during the initial startup, most often your screen will be dark during this process, just hit del several times, it should take you to the bios.

The boot order is generally found under the boot menu. Make sure that the cd or dvd rom, which ever you may have is listed first.

Once this is set hit F10, select yes, and the system will restart, you should have the xp cd in as it should immediatley try booting from the cd. Now if it boots from the cd It will get to a point where it will ask you if you would like to install a fresh copy or repair your current install.

You want to repair your current installation. Dont let it confuse you. During the early setup process it will give you an option to F2 to run system repair, this is not what you want. Be patient it will stop automatically at the screen that you want. Step 3: Close the Command Prompt and restart computer to see whether bad system config info error is solved. If the BCD files get corrupted, bad system config info error may also occur. But this tool requires you to enter WinPE.

If the previous methods can't solve the bad system config info error, users can perform system restore or computer reset to solve Windows 10 bad system config info error. However, the bad system config info error may cause data loss, so users should recover and backup important files in advance. Aiming to recover data when computer can't boot, MiniTool Partition Wizard is recommended.

Buy Now. Buy MiniTool Partition Wizard and launch it on a normal running computer to get its main interface. And then click Bootable Media on the toolbar. And then choose the media destination. Step 2: Set in the Firmware to make the computer boot from the disk containing the burnt boot. When the computer is booted up by the bootable disk, MiniTool Partition Wizard will open automatically after a few seconds. Then, click Data Recovery. Step 4: Find the files that need to be recovered and then click Save button.

Step 2: Follow the wizard the perform system restore. But please note that Show more restore points should be selected if users don't see any suitable system restore point. If users disable system protection feature and didn't create a system restore point manually, they may find that there is no system restore point. If that happens, please consider resetting this PC. Step 2: Follow the wizard to reset PC, but please select Keep my files option. If the computer can boot up after system restore or reset this PC, please check whether the important files still exist.

If the files are not there, users can refer to the above steps to retrieve them. However, if the bad system config info error still occurs after resetting PC, users should consider hardware problems. Here are 7 solutions to bad system config info error.

These solutions are explained step by step and some of them are illustrated with pictures. Click to tweet. The above seven ways can solve bad system config info errors caused by most common reasons.

But if you have any other solutions, please leave a comment below for sharing. Likewise, if you have problems in performing the above solutions, please leave a comment for discussion.

It said I had a system error and went into a memory dump. It said I might be able to reinstall or repair said file by putting in my system CD and follow the prompts to the Recovery Console. Windows will not come up. At this point it asks which Windows installation do I want to do and gives me only one option - [1. Now logic tells me that I should have another option since the info I want is on the CD in my D: drive. But alas, I can not get there. So I took the only option it gave me. I found the list of commands available to me but I am not sure which command I should use to fix my problem.

I also considered just reinstalling XP over the old files and hopefully the file that needs replaced will be installed. I know that when we were using WIN98 we could do that and it would work. But when I started a reinstallation of XP over the old one it informed me that I may loose the My Documents folder among other settings I may have set-up in Windows. I can not retrieve the My Documents folder and I can not risk losing it. Any thoughts? If I have no choice but to reinstall XP, can I install over the old files?

And if so, will all of the other programs and software be affected? Thanks for whatever help you can send my way. System File Checker sfc Scans and verifies the versions of all protected system files after you restart your computer. Johanna ,. Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. Johanna, Thank you so much for all of this info. The links you supplied have a lot of great stuff and help.