missing or corrupt windows file

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nyprmd

Keep getting the following message: Windows could not
start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS.000\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

Please help. Thanks
 
Reboot the machine into recovery console and type the following commands:

cd system32\config
ren system system.old
systemroot
copy system c:\winnt\system32\config
exit

That will reboot the machine off of the base system hive. If you have a
system hive backed up then you can put it on the drive at this point and
follow the same steps to add it back in.
 
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