Operating stystem

jebervic

My daughter has an Acer apire one netbook and its stopped working, it did this before and we had to reinstall windows XP via an external cd drive, the trouble is weve lost the XP disc, however we do have a Vista disc, can we use this ?

Col7777

Is it the same problem as my daughter's?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2875538

jebervic

Col7777 wrote: »

Is it the same problem as my daughter's?

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2875538

Not quite the same, it comes up with a screen that says "windows could not start because the following file was missing or corrupt \windows\system32\config\system

you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows set up using the original set CD rom

Col7777

What file is missing?

closed

Your registry is corrupt


try safe mode with command prompt, then run chkdsk c: /F

if you don't need any data, use the recovery partition, if it's still there, otherwise you'll need to search for the disc or borrow one.

jebervic

presumably, \windows\system32\config\system

jebervic

closed wrote: »

Your registry is corrupt


try safe mode with command prompt, then run chkdsk c: /F

if you don't need any data, use the recovery partition, if it's still there, otherwise you'll need to search for the disc or borrow one.

ive no idea what the revovery partion is or "run chkdsk is about, but from your answer I assume we can't use the vista disk

steve1980

No, Vista is a different operating system. You'll need to obtain an XP disc from someone.

jebervic

steve1980 wrote: »

No, Vista is a different operating system. You'll need to obtain an XP disc from someone.

ok, thanks

closed

recovery partition is a means to get the system as it was fresh from the factory in 10 minutes (unless you deleted it during the last reinstall), it will wipe all your data, usually accessed with ALT F10 at boot