need help. laptop wont boot.

[Sedah]

Okay, my uncle gave me he's laptop... and the problem with it is that everytime i power up the laptop I get this message "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM"

The laptop is a Compaq Presario v5000.

what can I do? Tried booting from the cd but it wont load, and I tried pushing 'R' from the start up but nothing. and already tried settin up the boot options to cd/dvd drive and it still wont read the CD...anything else I should try? I have no idea how to fix this, already tried everything that I knew; cuz this happened to my desktop before but having trouble gettin it to work on this laptop. any help/advice appreciated very much. =)

thanks in advance

 

[Prodigy146]

is your windows legit? call microsoft and ask for a new disk.. you need to reset windows

 

[Sedah]

yes, my windows are legit, is there a way to jus do a clean install? i dont mind losing all the files

nvm i got it working, read up some more on other forums and it worked.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Glad you got help from another forum.....