<B><BR>"Starting Windows...<BR>Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM. </B><BR><BR><B>"You can attempt to repair this file by ...

I recieved a nice lesson on why to never restart computers today. My sound was being a little funky, so I decided I should restart. BIG FUCKING MISTAKE. I select shutdown, restart. Everyting is fine ...

Click on File and then on Load Hive. Next, browse to the hive file location which is C:\Windows\System32\config. Select SYSTEM, SOFTWARE, SAM or the desired hive file. Finally, enter a temporary name ...