[MILAMBER]

Originally posted by Animal: This will be the ninth re install of XP in a month! It's not like my hardware is out of date, it's all the latest and greatest, but every damn time I boot from cold, I end up having to rebuild the registry using the console, just to get in. Every f**king time! I've narrowed it down to my sound card, a Creative SB Live! and their lack of decent drivers. I was okay a few months back, everything was working fine then I made the mistake of trying to update the drivers and bang...it's been screwed ever since. I came up with a brilliant idea of taking an image of the HD after I had the essentials installed and then it would be a snap to re image to hard drive, but nope the image was corrupt right from the get go. I like XP, but this is starting to get irratating. I'm contemplating going back to 2000. At least I could boot into the OS without 15 minutes of work first! Oh well, that's my rant for the day. If any of you have intelligent ideas as to why XP keeps coming up with the error messages as described in MS article Q307545, Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM, I'll buy you a beer!

It's not XP that's the problem it's the drivers like you said. Can you do a driver roll back? Do you have a system snapshot from before the driver installation?

Although, SP3 for Win2K is pretty nice.