Comments on: Fix Corrupted Files in Windows XP

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:14:10 +0000

Hi. I don’t have a windows xp cd. Where should I get that?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:21:50 +0000

This is all well and good if your computer came with a Xp start up disk. But, when you buy the computer with it already installed you don’t get that. So what is a person to do??

By: PJ-Xaiya

PJ-Xaiya — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:03:56 +0000

here’s some of step by step to solve this problems …

Insert the Windows XP startup disk into the floppy disk drive, or insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer.
Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted to do so.
When the “Welcome to Setup” screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
When you are prompted to do so, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER.

At the Recovery Console command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after you type each line:
md tmp
copy c:windowssystem32configsystem c:windowstmpsystem.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configsoftware c:windowstmpsoftware.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configsam c:windowstmpsam.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configsecurity c:windowstmpsecurity.bak
copy c:windowssystem32configdefault c:windowstmpdefault.bak

delete c:windowssystem32configsystem
delete c:windowssystem32configsoftware
delete c:windowssystem32configsam
delete c:windowssystem32configsecurity
delete c:windowssystem32configdefault

copy c:windowsrepairsystem c:windowssystem32configsystem
copy c:windowsrepairsoftware c:windowssystem32configsoftware
copy c:windowsrepairsam c:windowssystem32configsam
copy c:windowsrepairsecurity c:windowssystem32configsecurity
copy c:windowsrepairdefault c:windowssystem32configdefault

Type exit to quit Recovery Console. Your computer will restart

By: millie

millie — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:27:33 +0000

About half the photos I had saved on my portable harddrive have been corrupted. I can’t see, open or delete them. I’ve accepted the fact I won’t get them back but they won’t bloody go away!!

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:09:31 +0000

I have a dell 1525 just over a year old. Today while working on a paper, my computer froze, i restarted it and i was welcomed with the wonderful blue screen of death: error code 0×0000C1F5. I was told due to a corrupted microsoft file. I am not technologically advanced and was wondering if i could fix this on my own? if i could recover all my data? or if i need to send it off to be repaired? is this a simple fix? if so how, and what would i need?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:38:12 +0000

Thanks alot man!

By: Jamal Numan

Jamal Numan — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:10:49 +0000

Dears,

huge number of photos in my hard disk have been corrupted. even those photos which are inside word file (*.doc) or pdf files.

what to do? i need a solution

Regards, Jamal

By: quez

quez — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:14:07 +0000

windows could not start because the flollowing file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:28:21 +0000

Thanks anyway Eric. I solved the problem online like about 2 weeks ago. You can’t imagine the amount of programs they have that can recover your documents from Word. Only problem now that I think need s development in that area is the fact that when you recover a doc, any images you placed in the doc won’t be recovered. I was actually doing this recovery for a friend of mine. She got all the text back but the 30 or so images on her thesis went “poof”. She has since recovered.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:41:00 +0000

Mac: Google and download IBM Lotus (it’s free). Use it to look at and save the file, making sure to adjust the type to Word 2003 (.doc). Also probably a good idea to give it a new name.

Lotus can be a bit balky to use, but it has saved my bacon and the price is right…