Mountmgr.sys is corrupted

[rob303]

Hi, I've just got a brand spanking new PC (xp 2800, 160gb, 512 ram, ecs n2u400-a motherboard) which was built for me by the shop I got it from, needless to say they haven't been any use as yet. The bios was already set to boot from CD but when I put my copy of win xp pro in set up fails with "mountmgr.sys is corrupted". I tried fdisk and partition the drive with one active primary partition of 5% and the rest an extended one. I pretty new to pc's in general and was hoping someone out there had some idea of what is going wrong. I don't think it's the disk as when I put it in my old pc and my laptop, it runs with the "what do you want do" screen.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Rob

 

[bcastner]

I want you to take this to heart very seriously:

Please read:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;enus;316639

The "software" file of your system Registry is corrupted.
View the Microsoft Knowledge base article here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545

For a new machine, this should not be an issue. I would return it.

 

[rob303]

Hi thanks for the advice and the links...but I just read before something about whether the disc was dirty or not...gave it a wipe and hey presto it works...never think of the simple things when it comes to pcs...thanks anyway though