I have a Macbook (upgraded memory and HD) running OS X 10.6.8. The other day, I went to get into my Windows partition and got the following message:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\system32\config\SYSTEM
You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows set up using the original setup CD-ROM. Select "r" at the first screen to repair.
I tried to press F8, to no avail.
Can someone lead me through how to do this step by step from beginning to end of repair? IE: "Power off. Insert original Windows set up CD-ROM. Power on computer," etc.
My default is to turn on with OS X so I was worried that if I did the above process, for example, it would screw up my Mac partition which is working fine. So I am not sure if I need to turn on computer, press option key to allow me to select which partition and THEN insert the Windows start up CD before I select the Windows partition? Or do something more like the above? The more specific you can be for the relatively computer illiterate, the better. Thank you!!
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\system32\config\SYSTEM
You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows set up using the original setup CD-ROM. Select "r" at the first screen to repair.
I tried to press F8, to no avail.
Can someone lead me through how to do this step by step from beginning to end of repair? IE: "Power off. Insert original Windows set up CD-ROM. Power on computer," etc.
My default is to turn on with OS X so I was worried that if I did the above process, for example, it would screw up my Mac partition which is working fine. So I am not sure if I need to turn on computer, press option key to allow me to select which partition and THEN insert the Windows start up CD before I select the Windows partition? Or do something more like the above? The more specific you can be for the relatively computer illiterate, the better. Thank you!!