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I have a desktop machine running 32bit Windows XP (Dell T3400). After a system battery failure, it developed this error on startup: missing or corrupt windows\system32\config\system. I have 2 Genuine MS Windows XP install disks. When I try to boot from either disks I get a BSOD after all the drivers are loaded and the process shows "starting windows". Again, I restart with the XP Disk in the CD drive, press the "any" key 
to boot from CD, The CD starts the installation process and I see the drivers loading. The process gets to "starting windows", and the machine blue screens. This happens with both XP install disks. I've gone through the BIOS and everything looks OK to my untrained eye. Can anyone give me any idea whats happening or suggestions on what might be causing these crashes?
FWIW I took the boot hard drive out of the XP box and installed it into a newer machine running win10. The drive mounted and I was able to see all the files on it and run chkdisk, but that didn't solve my problem. If there is a way of fixing the registry on this drive from another machine I'd be very interested in that too.
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to boot from CD, The CD starts the installation process and I see the drivers loading. The process gets to "starting windows", and the machine blue screens. This happens with both XP install disks. I've gone through the BIOS and everything looks OK to my untrained eye. Can anyone give me any idea whats happening or suggestions on what might be causing these crashes? FWIW I took the boot hard drive out of the XP box and installed it into a newer machine running win10. The drive mounted and I was able to see all the files on it and run chkdisk, but that didn't solve my problem. If there is a way of fixing the registry on this drive from another machine I'd be very interested in that too.
Thanks
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