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[albert71292]

This morning, my son left me a note before leaving for school, saying his computer wouldn't boot. He was getting an error message stating, "Windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing or corrupt, file:\Windows\System32\config\system\". Andrew said he looked for the HP restore discs this morning, but couldn't find them (

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[garnet62900]

LOL at the Holiday Inn reference. :D

[tishalook]

Unfortunately I didn't think about a system restore until after I wiped out my hard drive and started over. I'll definitely keep that in mind for next time.

When you do a system restore, does it affect the data on secondary drives? For example, I keep all my files on my second hard drive and I'm always afraid if I do a system restore that it will erase data from the second drive that wasn't there before. Does that make sense? Do I need to call Leo myself? =P

[albert71292]

The secondary drive should be fine, but it's still always a good idea to backup your important data before a restore.

[tishalook]

Thanks for the info. I really need to do a backup of the secondary drive anyway since it's been awhile.