System file not found error
This type of error is often found on boot up , as well as the software file and sometimes others , and is a quick fix that I often use on my pc and others.
You can do this with the hard drive in place but also with it removed .
Removing the hard drive you will need to connect it to another computer with iether a usb to harddrive connector or to the main ata or sata cable (a laptop hdd will need an adapter for the size)
Navigate to the windows file and find the system.ini (in system32), the file may be missing or corrupt, if it is there change the extension to .kak , .old or .prev (really anything you want) and then do another search for the system.bak , once found COPY this to the desktop and change to system.ini , and COPY again and paste into the system 32 folder , if it says do you want to replace existing file with this one then you have made a mistake , you want to keep the original files to later undo what you have done if you need to !
This file is considerable smaller than the original and will have errors with the installed programs but will allow the system to boot to windows and you can fix the rest from there. It is usually the file from when the windows first was booted and registered. You may also find this file in last known good configuration but not always.
You can sometimes do this in the safe mode but not if the file is missing, there are some recovery discs that allow you to access the hdd files and move them around and these will work to.
Windows recovery is a pain and rarely works for me. This also undos and passwords that were not there at the original start , but normally the users files will be unable to be accessed.
There is no reason you cannot undo these steps unless you delete or forget where you put any file so be careful not to do that.
This also works for other ini files no found.
