Just fixed this for someone a week ago with the recovery console. <br><br>1) Open recovery console<br>2) rename c winnt\system32\config\system to system.old<br>3) Copy c winnt\repair\system to c ...

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has booted a machine to find the following message waiting for them:Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt\\Windows\\SYSTEM32 ...