No other types of restore utility installed correct? Is the PC part of a
domain? user logged in as Admin? have you tried using the admin signon? do
you have a registry repair utility, 30 day trial version tune-up utilities
2006, I was currious if it would see the registry when your problem occured.
create new user w/ admin rights, login as admin and copy (faulty) user
profile to newly created one, login as new user and try the process again.

I hope this helps,
Please post back with results, TY, this is interesting


"Eddy" wrote:

> Using XP Pro, fully updated. Scanned for Viruses, etc, by several scanners.
>
> If I use System Restore to restore to any restore point, it appears to
> proceed normally until the PC reboots, at which point I get a Blue Screen
> "Windows/System32/Config/System file missing or corrupt" error.
>
> Booting to a "Recovery Console" shows that System is indeed missing from
> the Windows/System32/Config/ folder (and also all the other registry hives
> SOFTWARE, SAM, SECURITY, and DEFAULT)
>
> It appears that System Restore has deleted the "old" registry but had
> failed to restore its saved copy of the registry.
>
> I can recover the situation by booting to a Recovery Console and following
> the instructions from the MS KB Q307545 to manually restore the registry
> from the Windows\repair\ backups. The PC then boots ok again.
>
> I have tried turning System Restore off (to flush out all restore points),
> rebooting, and then turning System Restore on again and making a new
> restore point, but if I try to restore to the newly-created restore point
> the same problem arises!
>
> Anyone got any ideas what might be causing this?
>
> Eddy.
>